# Blockchain-Based Platform to Fight Disinformation Using Crowd Wisdom and Artificial Intelligence
## 6 Discussion  
There has been much innovation on the offensive side of threat actors, yet the defensive side is still lacking the innovation force to properly respond to these kinds of threats. This represents a key reason of why innovation is required in this space, and the platform proposed in this paper represents a powerful alternative to what is available on the fact-checking space, a rather reactive approach that does not have sufficient backbone to scale and effectively counteract the disinformation phenomenon.  
The complex information environment that is aggressively developing in the digital ecosystem is threatening the way information is perceived. With high amounts of disinformation being spread on the Internet, AI-generated content that has the capacity to sky-rocket disinformation, and a diverse range of threat actors, humanity's access to information is threatened like never before. Not long from now, every piece of information on the Internet will be questioned because people will soon realize that it is no longer possible to separate truth from fiction. In this context, the platform described in this paper is set to fight disinformation using a coordinated approach between technologies and human intelligence in a unique way that will strengthen the defensive mechanisms against manipulated information and will offer the reader an easy way to identify and verify the authenticity of information.  
In current stages, the anti-disinformation market is immature. The majority of the fact-checking initiatives are entirely dependent on funding, not being sustainable in the long-term, and also lacking scaling capability. There has not been any initiative that can be pinpointed as an important effect in effectively combating disinformation at scale, so the proposed system architecture can open the way for true scalable, decentralized and trusted platforms that can be used by all members of a society. Currently, there are no scalable and trusted solutions that can assess online information, and centralized solutions have the drawback of being controlled by a small number of entities that might influence the overall analysis. Therefore, our solution that uses decentralized blockchain technologies and a combination of human and artificial intelligence would naturally appeal to all the members of society that want to check the trust of online information.  
Our system does not require publishers and news agencies to publish their news on a dedicated platform. Instead, our approach is to let the sites retain their identity and fetch their content using web crawlers that analyze and index the content on blockchain (proof of data) and off-chain (data). This content is further verified for authenticity and trust using AI based algorithms and human crowd wisdom.  
The platform intends to help regular users to check the information available on the Internet, providing them with the necessary tools to verify the main triggers of disinformation and give a vote of confidence to the information they consider trustworthy. The platform aims to rally a fact-checking community where all the information can be aggregated and checked by human actors and AI modules. This will ensure an efficient alignment of fact-checking efforts and will allow people from all over the world to engage in the voting process, thus validating content that can be trusted in a truly decentralized fashion.