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>Shift to Blockchain, get distributed news agencies, with reporters

You'll have to break that one down for me. Can the blockchain also cure male pattern baldness? Asking for a friend.

>and there's a well known tool for distributing that in a verified & timestamped format - Blockchain.

News agencies typically already have a way to distribute information since that's literally their job. Even if they don't they could just tweet it or whatever. That's not really a problem.

>Introduces a 'he-said, she-said' problem. Which the Blockchain neatly avoids.

No it doesn't, if you can provide a valid signature from the "News Org" public key that doesn't match the article's checksum then it proves that "News Org" at
some point signed conflicting data, proving that something has been tempered with. It doesn't matter if the person pointing that out is some anonymous user on
8chan, as long as the signature is valid it can only mean that the news organization did something shady or that their key got compromised.

That's the whole principle behind public key cryptography. I signed this comment before posting it, which means that if tomorrow I delete this message and you
kept a copy you could show that I in fact authored it (or at least endorsed it somehow).

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