Abstract
Users of traditional centralised social media networks have limited knowledge about the original source of information and even less about its trustworthiness and how this information has spread and been modified. Existing media verification tools include websites or browser add-ons that are closed-source or centralised, or they do not include user involvement in the information verification process. In this paper, we introduce EUNOMIA, an open source, decentralised framework that aims at providing information about social media content and context in an intermediary-free approach and in a way that assists users in deriving their own conclusions regarding a social media post’s trustworthiness. We present its components, how they interact with each other and how user contribution is key to its concept.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsNotes
- 1.
- 2.
- 3.
The EUNOMIA acronym is after the Greek goddess of good order and lawful conduct, associated with the internal stability of a state, including the enactment of good laws and the maintenance of civil order.
- 4.
References
Ateniese, G., Magri, B., Venturi, D., Andrade, E.: Redactable blockchain - or - rewriting history in bitcoin and friends. In: 2017 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS P), pp. 111–126. IEEE, April 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSP.2017.37
Devlin, J., Chang, M.W., Lee, K., Toutanova, K.: Bert: pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers for language understanding. arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.04805 (2018)
Dolan, W.B., Brockett, C.: Automatically constructing a corpus of sentential paraphrases. In: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Paraphrasing (IWP2005) (2005)
Dwoskin, E.: Twitter is looking for ways to let users flag fake news, offensive content, June 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/06/29/twitter-is-looking-for-ways-to-let-users-flag-fake-news. Accessed 6 Aug 2019
Ghoshal, A.: Whatsapp launches a tip line in India to battle fake news, April 2019. https://thenextweb.com/apps/2019/04/02/whatsapp-launches-a-tip-line-in-india-to-battle-fake-news-ahead-of-national-elections. Accessed 6 Aug 2019
Tufekci, Z.: It’s the (democracy-poisoning) golden age of free speech, February 2018. https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-tech-turmoil-new-censorship/. Accessed 6 Aug 2019
Vosoughi, S., Roy, D., Aral, S.: The spread of true and false news online. Science 359(6380), 1146–1151 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aap9559
Acknowledgment
Work presented in this paper has received funding from the European Union’s H2020 research and innovation programme under EUNOMIA project, grant agreement No. 825171.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Toumanidis, L., Heartfield, R., Kasnesis, P., Loukas, G., Patrikakis, C. (2020). A Prototype Framework for Assessing Information Provenance in Decentralised Social Media: The EUNOMIA Concept. In: Katsikas, S., Zorkadis, V. (eds) E-Democracy – Safeguarding Democracy and Human Rights in the Digital Age. e-Democracy 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1111. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37545-4_13
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37545-4_13
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-37544-7
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-37545-4
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)