Blockchain consultant Marloes Pomp is the new CEO of WordProof. She takes over from Sebastiaan van der Lans who founded WordProof in 2019. Sebastiaan will remain with WordProof in the role of COO and will thus be responsible for the day-to-day operations. Marloes will mainly focus on the legislative processes around the safe internet in …
Celebration time at WordProof HQ: after crossing the 1 million timestamps mark in February 2021, WordProof has now timestamped 5,308,142 million pieces of content on the blockchain! Meanwhile, our development team is working around the clock to add the redesigned Blockchain Certificate pop-up & buttons to the WordPress-plugin, and finalizing the Shopify integration. Beta testers …
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 »