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From YouTube: Starling Case Study - Protecting Election Coverage
Description
Reuters deploys the Starling Framework during the 2020 California Primary to explore how cryptography can enable and protect the work of their photojournalists in an era of misinformation.
For our case study, we developed a custom prototype that integrated directly into the Reuters Newswire CMS to explore how technology and ethics can drive new authenticated imagery systems for Web3.
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The Starling Framework for Data Integrity is a joint project between the USC Shoah Foundation and Stanford University’s Department of Electrical Engineering.
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The
starling
framework
for
data
integrity
is
a
comprehensive
set
of
tools
and
principles
that
allow
organizations
to
securely
capture,
store
and
verify
human
history.
Starling
is
a
joint
project
co-founded
by
the
usc
showa
foundation
and
stanford's
department
of
electrical
engineering.
Our
goal
is
to
help
restore
confidence
in
our
digital
imagery
today
we're
at
a
turning
point.
New
technologies
are
changing
the
way
we
consume.
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Media
and
governments
are
beginning
to
write
new
laws
to
deal
with
manipulated
images
and
video
things
are
moving
so
quickly
and
we
knew
we
had
to
respond
with
this
case
study
for
the
starling
framework.
We
sought
to
test
in
the
real
world
how
cryptography
can
be
used
to
establish
the
authenticity
of
an
image
and
to
do
this,
we
began
a
relationship
with
reuters
to
explore
how
a
series
of
prototypes
could
help
the
work
that
their
photographers
bravely
do
every
day
in
creating
photos
for
the
reuters
newswire.
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The
tools
that
we
are
developing
are
meant
to
address
these
issues
head
on.
We
use
next
generation
protocols
from
falcoin
and
ipfs
to
transmit
the
photos
and
then
securely
store
them
with
advanced
cryptographic
proofs.
This
establishes
the
integrity
of
the
data
from
the
field
all
the
way
up
to
the
newsroom.
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We've
been
able
to
take
these
lessons
and
apply
them
to
things
like
the
content.
Authenticity
initiative,
which
is
setting
new
standards
for
content
attribution.
The
most
important
thing
we
learned
is
that,
while
cryptographic
ledgers
are
helpful,
there's
also
a
danger.
You
don't
want
to
create
a
single
central
ledger
that
somehow
represents
the
truth.