PhD candidate develops new tech to combat fake news
Cutting-edge technologies gave the world fake news, but researchers from the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Engineering are developing even newer technology to stop it.
According to Chien-Chih Chen, one of the project’s lead researchers and a PhD candidate in electrical and computer engineering, the innovative system he and his colleagues have developed over the past three years is “unique,” and relies on something already famous for underpinning Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies — blockchain.