smART socIal media eCOsytstem in a blockchaiN Federated environment

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For trustworthy, resilient, and globally sustainable social media

ARTICONF's mission

ARTICONF addresses issues of trust, time-criticality and democratisation for a new generation of federated infrastructure, to fulfil the privacy, robustness, and autonomy related promises that proprietary social media platforms have failed to deliver so far

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A novel set of trustworthy, resilient, and globally sustainable decentralised social media services. #blockchain #socialmedia #EU #H2020

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14 Jan 1481950748631912449

There is no comprehensive strategy to counter and legislate the wide variety of #fakenews and its means of dissemination. It is thus of utmost importance to raise awareness on these topics.

Countering Fake News with Knowledge - ARTICONF

What you need to know about creating and disseminating fake news based on the level of intention to spread fake content and create harm.

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13 Jan 1481572517890375680

Fabricated content refers to synthetic content created to deceive or cause harm following a specific purpose. (D) shows an example of fabricated content released and spread across several online platforms before the USA presidential elections with a strong political motivation.

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12 Jan 1481223729158012929

Manipulated content is fake content often found in photographs or videos modified to deceive. (C) illustrates a manipulated photo (on the right) besides the original (on the left).

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12 Jan 1481197059491434498

Imposter content refers to false content manipulated from trustworthy sources. For example, it includes cut and modified videos to a version that disseminates an imposter message. [ J. Posetti et al., UNESCO: Journalism, “Fake News” & Disinformation. 2018. ]

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Objectives

Transparent, decentralised infrastructure

Simplify the configuration, creation and maintenance of custom blockchain networks by providing a cloud-agnostic Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) toolkit offering permissioned blockchain services for agile decentralised social media platforms.

Democratic and tokenized decision-making

ARTICONF provides personalized recommendations to social media users and enables them to collectively recommend and generate content, flag misinformation and earn rewards in return while ensuring no ownership violation.

Elastic resource provisioning

Improving efficiency for automating Cloud services, optimizing QoS (Quality of service) performance metrics, controlling the P2P infrastructure, and ensuring fast recovery for decentralized applications.

Cognitive analytics for collaborative economy

Trusted decentralized social network #ARTICONF provides a tokenized decision-making process and improves users' engagement rate and return on collaboration over incentivized and sharing economy through interactive and intelligent analytics.

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Use cases

Crowd journalism

Trustworthy live news video capture, streaming, and editing supported by direct marketplace blockchain transactions between producers and consumers.

Car sharing

AI-driven mobile app that mixes car sharing and carpooling models allowing cost sharing and safe travel through direct trustworthy transactions among passengers.