Background
Payments, communication, and information, are critical needs.
Payments - Cryptocurrency in its current state is not censorship resistant since telecommunication and/or internet connectivity is a prerequisite to carry out all transactions. In 2022, the world saw , a statistic that is rising at an alarming rate each year.
Communication - Freedom of speech is being curbed with rapidly growing arbitrary limitations to communication apps, and basic infrastructure and internet services are starting to often be severed by governments. In 2023, increased their internet censorship surrounding social media, communication apps, and political media.
Internet and social media ban implemented during exam periods, elections, protests, and civil unrest.
Total ban or highly restricted use of encrypted chat apps to force usage of local apps with backdoors that enable third-parties to access messages.
Implemented surveillance technology to monitor social media posts and obfuscated information.
Imposed light restrictions to total censorship on political media, attacks and threats on journalists.
Information - We are witnessing misinformation proliferate in news and on social media at astonishing rates. Users currently lack accessible tools for reporting, self-sovereign fact-checking, and content source verification. Spread of false news online is now approximately 6 times faster than truthful content, and .
Content-based issues (i.e., deceptive content that resembles the truth very closely).
Contextual issues (i.e., lack of user awareness, social bots spreaders of fake content, and OSN’s dynamic natures that leads to the fast propagation).
Issue of existing datasets (i.e., there is still no one size fits all benchmark dataset for fake news detection).
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