'Fake News' and How WaPo Rewrote Its Story on Russian Hacking of Power Grid

It makes a lot of sense to use a blockchain for published news articles. One of the biggest issues with web based news is the ability of the content provider to change the content of an article with no indication of having done so.

The result of a 24 hr news cycle more concerned about being first than being correct, is the manifestation of a nonchalant attitude to post-hoc alter something which was supposed to be believed to be true at the time it was supposedly published. The number of edits to WaPos article let alone the actual falsehood of the claim made on Friday are deeply troubling. Of course there is the related issue of other news sources blindly regurgitating information and rolling with a narrative until the news cycle is over. When the story turns out to be untrue the attention given to the retraction is a fraction of the initial coverage.

>Despite the article ballooning from 8 to 18 paragraphs, the publication date of the article remained unchanged and no editorial note was appended, meaning that a reader being forwarded a link to the article would have no way of knowing the article they were seeing was in any way changed from the original version published 2 hours prior.

It is entirely irresponsible for a "news organization" to edit the news and not inform their readers