Decentralized News-Retrieval Architecture Using Blockchain Technology

Decentralized News-Retrieval Architecture Using Blockchain Technology

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Trust is a critical element when it comes to SHOPSTORM_HIDDEN_PRODUCT news articles, and an important problem is how to ensure trust in the published information on news websites.First, this paper describes the inner workings of a proposed news-retrieval and aggregation architecture employed by a blockchain-based solution for fighting disinformation; this includes a comparison between existing information retrieval solutions.The decentralized nature of the solution is achieved by separating the crawling (i.e.

, extracting the web page links) from the scraping (i.e., extracting the article information) and having third-party actors extract the data.A majority-rule mechanism is used to determine the correctness of the information, and the blockchain network is used for traceability.

Second, the steps needed to deploy the distributed components in a cloud environment seamlessly are discussed in detail, with a special focus on the open-source OpenStack cloud solution.Lastly, novel methods for achieving a truly decentralized architecture based on community input and blockchain technology are Gift Cards presented, thus ensuring maximum trust and transparency in the system.The results obtained by testing the proposed news-retrieval system are presented, and the optimizations that can be made are discussed based on the crawling and scraping test results.