Can I tell a fake from a real fact at a glance? Not always, more like almost never. In the era of post-truth, any data needs to be verified.
Man is a social being, we love to tell stories, and the opinion of another person can easily confuse us. We have several ways to get information: we can find it ourselves, we can perceive it unconsciously, or we will be told it explicitly. Much of what we know about the world falls into the latter category - someone once told us about some fact, and now we know about it secondhand. We often rely on experts on a particular subject.
I have never seen the Higgs boson (also called the God particle) with my own eyes, but there is a huge amount of work that describes in detail the experiments or models being carried out - and this leads me to think that all this exists. Another example. I have never verified on my own that the inductively coupled plasma in my lab is designed and maintained in good working order - we simply trust specialists, certificates, licenses, encyclopedias and textbooks.

However, one should not forget about one's own opinion, banal logic and the power of reasoning. People who want to illegally get more money or make us vote at our own expense will try to bombard us with fakes, confuse us with unsubstantiated numbers, or distract us from the essence of information that, upon closer examination, will turn out to be irrelevant. They will mask the facts. And even the smartest of us can be fooled. Steve Jobs delayed treatment for his pancreatic cancer because he followed advice (taken from books and the internet) that changing his diet would cure it. By the time he realized that the diet was not working, his illness was no longer amenable to treatment.
Nowadays, more and more often, a request for socially significant information is satisfied in social networks. But the Internet is often neutral in relation to the reliability of information flows: the absence of strict rules for entering the information space of social networks has made it possible for unverified and false news to reach the widest audiences. Information with equal probability can be distributed both true and false. And the intent to purposefully disseminate implausible information is not at all as harmless as it seems at first glance.

Negative viral information performs a number of functions:
diverting the audience from real problems (redirecting attention), intimidation, trolling, harassment, ridicule, spreading rumors and fakes, spam, flooding, propaganda of drugs, tobacco and alcohol products, creating stereotypes, inciting ethnic hatred, reducing the literacy of the population. As a result of the implementation of these functions, the efficiency of human life decreases, a person develops either apathy towards everything that happens, or unreasonable aggression and cruelty, the desire for violence and suicide (suffice it to recall the Blue Whale media virus, which led to a surge of teenagers' interest in death groups).
weakening the morale of any nation, the destruction of national identity and national dignity, rewriting history (changing long-term memory), the destruction of religions and the creation of destructive cults, totalitarian sects, the generation of economic and political chaos, the segmentation of society, the destruction of the natural habitat and the simulation of reality , the destruction of everything social and (more globally) human, cyberterrorism.

Thus, every year, more and more researchers in this field recognize the need to counteract the spread of false information. The issues of regulating fake publications today are a challenge for states, since the measures taken should not violate the constitutional rights of citizens. In 2017, a seminar was held at Yale University on recognizing fake news and identifying effective mechanisms to combat it. During the discussion, it was noted that the difficulty of distinguishing between fake news increases the risk of excessive government regulation.
In addition, it became known that the largest online platforms have taken increased obligations to the European Union to combat misinformation. On June 16, 2022, the European Commission signed with 34 online structures an updated Code to Combat Disinformation. Among the signatories are Meta, Google, Twitter, TikTok, Microsoft and others.

"We need a safer and more transparent online environment. The EU values ​​the truth and this code will help protect it," said Vera Yurova, Deputy Head of the European Commission. "We dream of a society in which people will feel disgust when they are manipulated."
According to published documents of the European Commission, the updated version of the disinformation code aims to eliminate disinformation from advertising content supply systems, create algorithms for detecting disinformation, provide enhanced tools for users to label content as misinformation. In addition, the European Commission has proposed the creation of a task force that will oversee the implementation of the provisions of this code.
Thus, now not only Internet platforms, but also states are obliged to develop and track new ways to detect inappropriate content. Complicating the situation is the fact that today it is very easy and cheap to create disinformation: it is enough for a person to have a digital platform available. Thus began the battle of artificial intelligence (AI), fraud and cybersecurity.

“Artificial intelligence technologies are completely open today, and devices for receiving and processing data are miniaturizing and getting cheaper,” says Yuri Vilsiter, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the GosNIIAS department. “Therefore, it is highly likely that in the near future, not even the state and large corporations, but simply private individuals will be able to eavesdrop and spy on us, as well as manipulate reality. In the coming years, it will be possible, by analyzing user preferences, to influence him through news collections and very skillful fakes.

The development of content analysis technologies, research in the field of data analysis creates great opportunities for researchers in this field. Therefore, Exorde as a knowledge network can use the unstructured content of the Internet and perform a first-of-its-kind analysis of the virality of information circulating throughout the network.
Exorde is run by its DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) and uses community votes and polls. Management will be decentralized among all members of the community. Collectively, they will be able to change the internal rules and parameters of the systems (rewards, limits, delays, scheduling, etc.) and will have a built-in reputation system. These mechanisms are designed to continually align the interests of the community and its governance for the benefit of Exorde.

In addition, the Exorde Labs team is proud to announce the launch of the Testnet, which will consist of four stages:
This is just the beginning of the Exorde journey, and even the Testnet journey itself!
Stage 1: Initial observation, where the Exorde Labs team will be the only participant to check that everything works well enough and the system is stable enough. This phase should last ~7 days.
Stage 2: Gradual opening of Testnet for beta testers. The team will release web scraping modules (only compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac for now later this summer) to participate in Testnet. A web dashboard will be provided to monitor network activity, statistics and URLs. This phase should last 1 month.
Stage 3: Consolidation. Testnet should be open to anyone who wants to download open source modules and participate! This phase will include more detailed web panels showing blocks of data being mined on the Exorde network, the number of free and employed workers, protocol details with additional statistics, URLs, and more. End of July, beginning of August.
Stage 4: Testnet v0.2, with improved staking mechanisms, rewards and dynamic protocol settings. Constant improvements, the most advanced web scraping modules! End of summer - September.

Written by Bimevox
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