Towards a Location-Aware Blockchain-Based Solution to Distinguish Fake News in Social Media

Wahid Sadique Koly, Abu Kaisar Jamil, Mohammad Shahriar Rahman, Hanif Bhuiyan, Md. Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Abdullah Al Omar

Abstract: Nowadays, social media is the main source of all global and local news in this generation. But the propagation of fake news and misleading information through social media has become a major concern. Fake news and misleading information often cause crucial damage to human life and society. Moreover, social media has become a source of news, views, and facts for its user. Through social media, a piece of news or information can reach every corner of the world within seconds. It is quite hard for a general social media user to distinguish fake news from real one. Even sometimes social media users cannot distinguish the fake news while residing in the same location of that real news. Hence, in this paper, we have proposed a location-aware blockchain-based news validation system that can be integrated with social media in order to distinguish fake news and misleading information from real ones.