As a former director at Twitter and editor-in-chief of Wired's online publication, Evan Hansen had a front-row seat to the information wars. He saw that, even as fact-checking organizations and tools have proliferated, the public's confidence in media has plummeted, especially as the U.S. nears another contentious election. But Hansen believes that an emerging technology could help combat the loss of trust: Blockchain.
Hansen is the cofounder of Factland, a crowdsourced platform that offers users crypto tokens to settle online disputes. He envisions the service, which is built on Dfinity's Internet Computer blockchain, as a competitor to X's Community Notes feature, which lets those on X add context to false or unreliable posts. In the case of Factland, the service is designed to live under posts and articles across different social media sites and publications, which can adopt it as a third-party verification tool.
