The Trusted Web has surveyed people across Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States to get their assessment on the problem called fake news. The reports are available now and include a ‘Key Findings‘-section for the main takeaways. State of Misinformation 2021 Europe State of Misinformation 2021 Southeast Asia State of Misinformation 2021 United States
The Trusted Web and WAN IFRA have joined forces and host an event about blockchain in the newsroom this Thursday. In the run-up to this event, WAN IFRA has asked several questions about the state of blockchain in publishing. Let’s take a look at the results! The majority of the respondents believe that blockchain technology …
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The word is out: the entire Drupal community can now use the official WordProof for Drupal module to implement automatic timestamps. The module was developed in collaboration with the Dutch Drupal agency SWIS and includes the new blockchain certificate. Matthias Snoei, general director at SWIS: “The concept of open source is integrated in SWIS’s DNA. …
Presearch, a community-powered search engine that protects privacy and delivers more neutral, unbiased results, announced it will label timestamped pages in search results, a key component in combating the spread of misinformation online. Presearch is the first search engine in the world to integrate WordProof’s universal blockchain-based timestamping ecosystem, which shows when information was last …
WordProof is proud to announce David Lockie as an Advisor to the Board. David will use his experience to help WordProof grow through partnerships with major publishers, content platforms and creators to adopt timestamps for content protection and trust creation. David has been an active participant in the WordPress community since 2007, first as a …
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In November 2020, Google announced a new ranking factor called ‘Page Experience’ which would be activated in May 2021. Page Experience consists of multiple ‘Core Web Vitals’ and Google has since been recommending website owners on how they can improve this score. For more information about Web Vitals and the upcoming changes, head to Yoast.com …
WordProof is proud to announce a noteworthy milestone today as the one millionth timestamp was published. The tool, which allows websites to show transparency, take accountability and protect copyright to increase trust on the internet, launched in 2019. The 200K timestamp mark was crossed only eight months ago, after which several quality news outlets and …
Our take on the roller coaster called ‘2020’ and a glimpse of what to expect in 2021 (from a product perspective). Off to a good start… At the beginning of 2020, the European Commission announced that WordProof was one of the 23 finalists in the Blockchains for Social Good contest. Shortly after, our team went …
Wrapping up WordProof’s 2020 — and a glimpse of the year ahead! Read More »
Anybody can publish anything online. You just need a laptop, domain name, and content management system like WordPress to get started. But how do you know what information can be trusted these days? Who is taking accountability for that information? And how will Google verify trustworthiness as one of the biggest distributors of online content? …
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The Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) and the Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH) host a flagship event in Asia focused on innovation and entrepreneurship, which takes place on 7 – 11 December 2020. Due to COVID-19, the entire conference is held online with various start-ups, investors, companies, innovators and other parts of the ecosystem …
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