Fake news mitigation architecture
Oct 8th, 2016 by Jesper Kråkhede
The last two years’ fake news have arisen as a problem in my world. Not only is it a problem within security but it is also a problem in many other areas like health (anti vaccine movement), political (US election) and food (anti GMO) to name a few. Common for everyone is that they either write under fake or anonymous accounts or build their case on unverified (often fraudulent sources).
The common problem is that we have freedom to express whatever we want on internet anonymously. I´m all for that as there is many cases where freedom of speech is very important and we should guard that.
So, I started to do some thinking how to solve this problem and have come up with an architecture for this: Fake news mitigation architecture.
This architecture contains a number of components:
1. Verified strong identity
2. Identity repository
3. Control who is allowed to comment or send you information
4. Automatic reporting of incidents
My following posts will dive deeper into each component.