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NRC Future AffairsFuture Affairs LIVE: De infocalyps en de toekomst van het webSocial media bubbles, manipulatie en deepfakes: de waarheid ligt zwaar onder vuur. Volgens veel onderzoekers stevenen we af op een 'infocalyps', een situatie waarin álle informatie verdacht is. Maar er wordt hard gewerkt aan oplossingen, bijvoorbeeld door filosofiehoogleraar Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU) en blockchainpionier Sebastiaan van der Lans, oprichter van de startup WordProof en het Europese initiatief Trusted Web.Wij spraken ze live in Cultuurhuis Felix Meritis in Amsterdam over de grote vraag: hoe repareren we het internet?Gasten: Catarina Dutilh Novaes & Sebastiaan van der LansPresentatie: Jessica van der S...2024-08-0952 min
De Keiharde PödcastEen hypnotiserende epic en black metal legend IhsahnDe podcast met hart voor hard! Een uur lang maken Suzanne Bosman en Mike Arntz dè metalpodcast voor jou en door jou samengesteld. In deze aflevering hoor je muziek van Asphyx, Baratro, Amplifier, Night Demon en Ihsahn.
Luisteraar Sebastiaan van der Lans heeft al een tijdje een nummer in zijn hoofd die hij wil aanvragen,maar de gedachte dat deze track weleens te lang zou kunnen zijn voor De Keiharde, houdt hem tegen. Toen Suzanne en Mike aan het begin van het nieuwe seizoen aankondigde dat ze ook epic tracks zouden gaan draaien, greep Sebastiaan zijn kans. H...2024-03-011h 07
Crypto Update | BNRCrypto Update: Politieke opvatting over bitcoin ontstijgt scheiding tussen links en rechtsWe maken opnieuw een rondje langs de velden van politieke partijen. Wat is hun mening over Bitcoin? Bitcoin.nl zocht het uit en vroeg alle partijen om hun mening. De verschillen zijn niet te vangen in links of rechts. Van de grote namen reageerden alleen BBB en NSC niet. En Coinbase stopt met Bitcoin SV, het mislukte cryptoproject van Craig Wright, die zich al jaren voordoet als schrijver van het originele bitcoin whitepaper. Deze week in de Cryptocast Een gesprek met Sebastiaan van der Lans over Wordproof. Hij zag in dat er geen verdienmodel te vi...2023-11-0906 minCryptocast | BNRCrypto Update: Politieke opvatting over bitcoin ontstijgt scheiding tussen links en rechtsWe maken opnieuw een rondje langs de velden van politieke partijen. Wat is hun mening over Bitcoin? Bitcoin.nl zocht het uit en vroeg alle partijen om hun mening. De verschillen zijn niet te vangen in links of rechts. Van de grote namen reageerden alleen BBB en NSC niet. En Coinbase stopt met Bitcoin SV, het mislukte cryptoproject van Craig Wright, die zich al jaren voordoet als schrijver van het originele bitcoin whitepaper. Deze week in de Cryptocast Een gesprek met Sebastiaan van der Lans over Wordproof. Hij zag in dat er geen verdienmodel te vi...2023-11-0906 minCryptocast | BNRKunstmatige intelligentie nieuw verdienmodel voor Wordproof | 297 BWe praten met Sebastiaan van der Lans, oprichter van Wordproof. Hij vertelt openhartig over zijn zoektocht naar een verdienmodel voor timestamping op de blockchain. Dat lukte maar moeilijk en nu kijkt Wordproof ook naar een nieuwe technologie: AI. Welke stappen neemt Wordproof nu? En hoe denkt Sebastiaan over het meest recente voorbeeld van timestamping op de blockchain: de verkiezingen in Guatemala. Co-host is Krijn Soeteman. Gasten Krijn Soeteman Daniël Mol Links Wordproof De podcast van Sebastiaan: Trusted Web Gesprek met Blockchain-uitvinder Scott Stornetta 2023-11-0754 min
The Trusted Web PodcastAI and Search: Exploring the Impact with Joost de Valk, Founder of Yoast SEO & InvestorJoost de Valk is an entrepreneur and application software developer from the Netherlands who is best known for Yoast SEO. Joost started out as a consultant and blogger in 2004 before developing Yoast, one of the most successful plug-ins for WordPress.Tune in to this episode as we discuss the current landscape of search and AI, and the implications for both. Google and Bing have implemented new AI chatbots to create a more conversational technology for searches, but this also raises questions of trust and accuracy. Joost also speaks of large-scale AI models and their...2023-05-0345 min
The Trusted Web PodcastDigital Content Provenance with Andy Parsons, Senior Director of Content Authenticity Initiative at AdobeMy guest and I share a very deep passion for a trustworthy internet, and his name is Andy Parsons. Over the last few decades, Andy has been a CTO of over a dozen companies, a founder of several companies and a start-up mentor. Andy is currently a Senior Director at Adobe, overseeing its Content Authenticity Initiative. In 2019, Adobe launched this Content Authenticity Initiative with launching partners Twitter and NY Times., where the idea was to establish what they call Digital Content Provenance, which we will extensively discuss throughout this episode. Tune in to this e...2023-01-1157 min
The Trusted Web PodcastTimestamps, Society, and Mass Adoption of a Trusted Web with Scott Stornetta, Blockchain Co-inventorScott Stornetta is a Grandfather, Teacher, Investor and scientific researcher – and an invention he did 30 years ago totally revolutionizes the world of tech today. In 1991, he and Stuart Haber, published the whitepaper "How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document”. This paper, in fact, could be described as the invention of blockchain. In 1992 this paper won the Discover Award for Computer Software; it’s considered to be one of the most important papers in the development of cryptocurrencies as we know it today.Tune into this fascinating conversation as we explore inventing blockchain by proving its imposs...2022-12-281h 07
Internet of Assets PodcastSebastiaan van der Lans - How to get $1M funding (fast)In today's episode of the Internet of Assets Podcast, we were joined by Sebastiaan van der Lans, a successful open-source entrepreneur and Chairman of the Trusted Web Foundation.
Sebastiaan is best known for his work at WordProof, a company he founded in 2018 to develop open-source tools to build trust and transparency in the content landscape using blockchain technology. In 2020 he received the blockchain for Social Good award including funding of €1M. In this podcast, we talked about his open-source entrepreneurial experiences, how to get €1M of funding, and the role and benefits of the GDPR regulations in poli...2022-08-1128 min
Satoshi Radio#215 - Celsius failliet, Euro-Dollar parity en de beste boeken voor de zomerDeze week hebben we een zomerse vakantie editie van Satoshi Radio in petto. Bert en Peet bellen in vanaf hun vakantieadres (Bert zelfs vanuit zijn kofferbak, al is die groter dan de vorige keer). Natuurlijk hebben de mannen het over de macro economische ontwikkelingen: de hoger dan verwachte CPI in de VS, de mogelijke renteverhoging van 1% en de Euro-Dollar parity. Daarnaast geeft Bart een update over de bosbrand: hoe gaat het met Celsius. Als klap op de vuurpijl delen de heren ook nog eens beste boeken om deze zomer te gaan lezen.
Satoshi Radio wordt mede mogelijk...2022-07-141h 51
The Trusted Web PodcastManaging Day-to-day Verifications with Karen Mahabir, Head of Fact Checking at The Associated PressKaren Mahabir is the AP’s Fact Check and Misinformation Editor, based in New York City. She has worked as a reporter, editor and producer for the AP in its Mexico City, Washington and New York offices. Mahabir also served as Managing Editor of News for The Huffington Post for two years and has spent many years working as a reporter and columnist at several newspapers in New York City and New Jersey.In this episode, we discuss what a Misinformation Editor does, live fact-checking, viral questions, ‘explainer’ pieces, and the rise of citizen journa...2021-12-0820 min
The Trusted Web PodcastSocial Media and Trust with Amy Mitchell, Director, Journalism Research, Pew Research CenterAmy Mitchell is director of journalism research at Pew Research Center. She is responsible for the Center’s research related to news and information, including how the public accesses, engages with and creates news, what news organizations are providing and how technology is changing all of these elements. Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world.In this conversation we explore the impact of people relying on social media as their primary news source. Tune in as we discuss private social me...2021-11-2418 min
The Trusted Web PodcastBuilding a Public Consensus on Truth with Matt Carmichael, VP of Editorial and Content Strategy for Ipsos, North AmericaMatt Carmichael is the vice president of editorial and content strategy for Ipsos in North America where he edits the award-winning magazine, What the Future. In addition, he is an author and keynote speaker who reports on trends, futurism, demographics and their impacts on everything from marketing, to product development to urban planning and transit.Matt shares on the show some powerful insights from his latest market research. We also talk about confirmation bias, synthetic media, the resources the media industry needs, why transparency isn’t the answer for everything – and what makes him caut...2021-11-1028 min
The Trusted Web PodcastOptimizing Content for Audience Trust with Helen Havlak, VP, The VergeHelen Havlak, Vice President of The Verge, shares how the organization has built trust through different forms of content over the years. The Verge is an ambitious multimedia effort founded in 2011 to examine how technology will change life in the future for a massive mainstream audience. The Verge reaches 55MM+ US readers and millions of subscribers across YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and email. Helen oversees strategy, operations, growth, product, editorial planning, analytics, and audience development.In this conversation, we discuss public ethics policies, the power of podcasting and audio, The Verge’s ‘jobs to be d...2021-10-2723 min
The Trusted Web PodcastCan Technology Combat Fake News? With Henry Pickavet, Editorial Director at TechCrunchHenry Pickavet is the editorial director of TechCrunch, which he joined nine years ago as a copy editor. Prior to joining TechCrunch, Henry had a hand in a number of online and print publications, including InternetNews.com as chief copy editor and Government Technology Magazine as managing editor. Henry joins the show to explore what makes a trusted online brand.Tune in to hear what’s changed across the media landscape over the past decade. We also discuss the future of content discovery, virtual events, the relationship between diversity and trust – and being an avid...2021-10-1325 min
The Trusted Web PodcastThe Trust Barometer with Tonia Ries, Executive Director of Intellectual Property for the Edelman Trust InstituteTonia Ries has more than 30 years of experience in marketing, research, strategy and media. She is Executive Director of Intellectual Property for the Edelman Trust Institute, Edelman’s center for the study of trust and a learning laboratory for trust building between companies, institutions, brands and people. Her role includes stewardship of the Edelman Trust Barometer, the largest global survey and foremost authority on trust in institutions and brands.It was great having Tonia join me today to discuss the findings from their Trust Barometer research, and learning that the most trusted source for pe...2021-09-2924 minCryptocast | BNRWordproof sleutelt met blockchain aan een beter internetMede mogelijk gemaakt door: AMDAXGasten Sebastiaan van der Lans Bas Wisselink Nieuws Yoast (een Nederlands bedrijf voor SEO binnen Wordpress) is overgenomen. Minderheden hebben steeds meer interesse in crypto. (Cointelegraph) De complotdenker bankiert maar elders, zegt de bank. (NRC) DNB waarschuwt Binance. Binance wereldwijd onder vuur: hun gedrag wijkt af van andere spelers. (LekkerCryptisch) Links Wordproof. Nederlandse startup WordProof wint 1 miljoen euro in wedstrijd van Europese Commissie. Wordproof sleept Europese prijs...2021-08-191h 10
The Trusted Web PodcastBuilding Public Trust with Transparency with Scott Kraft, Managing Editor, Los Angeles TimesAs managing editor, Scott Kraft oversees the Los Angeles Times newsroom, including Column One, enterprise, investigations and Sports. During more than three decades at The Times, Kraft has been a national and foreign correspondent as well as national editor and Deputy Managing Editor/News. He has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing, and wrote for the Associated Press before joining the Times. I really enjoyed learning more about how the LA Times have been handling accountability. Listen to find out more about the future of small newspapers, reporting on useful information, how t...2021-08-1122 min
The Trusted Web PodcastBuilding Trust With The Most Innovative Business Leaders with Eric Schurenberg, CEO at Mansueto VenturesAnyone with an internet connection can be a publisher, so what does it take for business journalism to build trust with their readers? I’m excited to speak with Eric Schurenberg, CEO at Mansueto Ventures, to learn what they are doing. Founded in 2005, the publishing company is dedicated to serving business leaders. They publish the influential publications Inc. and Fast Company. Eric Schurenberg has been the CEO of Mansueto Ventures since 2018. Prior to that, Eric was the founding editor of CBS MoneyWatch.com and the editor in chief of BNET.com.2021-07-2819 min
The Trusted Web PodcastTrust and Editing with Abhimanyu Ghoshal, Managing Editor, TNWThe consumption and distribution of media has changed drastically over the past decade. Calling in from Bangalore, The Next Web’s Managing Editor Abhimanyu Ghoshal joins the show to reflect on what the major shifts have been. TNW is a global digital brand that manages several initiatives focused on international technology news, business, and culture to inform, inspire and connect people who love tech.We explore niche-based content, empowering readers to debunk misinformation, what makes a reliable review, how TNW measures readership loyalty, and new ways of telling stories. Lin...2021-07-2123 min
The Trusted Web PodcastCorrections in The Era of Fake News with Mark Schoofs, Editor in Chief, BuzzFeed NewsBuzzFeed is the leading independent digital media and tech company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience. Mark Schoofs joins the show to share about his role as Editor in Chief at BuzzFeed News, and what the state of media and journalism looks like today.Over the course of his 30 year career, Mark has earned a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on AIDS in Africa at The Village Voice, shared in another Pulitzer Prize at The Wall Street Journal for reporting on the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and created BuzzFeed News’s investigations team, which is...2021-07-0724 min
The Trusted Web PodcastDisrupting Politics with Non-Partisan Journalism with Matt Kaminski, Editor in Chief, POLITICOAs POLITICO’s Editor-in-Chief, Matt Kaminski oversees all editorial operations of the publication. Starting as a freelancer from Eastern Europe before his senior year in college, Matt has reported on international affairs, politics and business on and off for the past quarter century. He joined POLITICO in late 2014 to become the founding editor of the European edition, which launched in April 2015. He moved to Washington in the fall of 2018 to help lead the publication’s global expansion efforts, and took on his current role in April 2019.Join us as we ex...2021-06-3024 min
The Trusted Web PodcastThe Power of Progressive Journalism with Katherine Bell, Editor in Chief, QuartzKatherine Bell is Editor-In-Chief at Quartz. She previously served as editor-in-chief of Barron’s magazine, from 2017 until earlier in 2019. Before that, she worked at Harvard Business Review for a decade and was the editor of HBR.org. In both roles, she led the digital transformation of iconic print publications.Tune into this episode as we discuss how journalism has changed over the last year – and why more newsrooms need to be more progressive with their business models. We discuss service and investigative journalism, how the Quartz newsroom has become more inclusive in light of Geor...2021-06-1623 min
The Trusted Web PodcastA Vision For Journalism with Christophe Deloire, General Secretary, Reporters Without BordersChristophe Deloire’s career trajectory is impressive. He ran one of the leading French journalism schools, the CFJ, from 2008 to 2012, and was an investigative reporter for the politics and society sections of the French news magazine Le Point from 1998 to 2007. He has also worked for the TV channels ARTE and TF1, made documentary films, edited several authors and written several bestsellers. Christophe is currently the General Secretary and Executive Director of Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Calling in from France, Christophe shares how we can all support great journalism.I’m excited to speak with Chri...2021-05-2629 min
The Trusted Web PodcastRegulations for Misinformation with Fil Menczer, Director, the Observatory on Social MediaFil is a Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, and the former director at the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research – a research unit of the Indiana University School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering. He joins the show to explore what he has learnt from accessing platform data, from his current role as Director of The Observatory on Social Media.Things are changing fast so in this interview I take stock with Fil to review the impact of regulation. Through community reviews, accessing platform data and social bots – we explore what all stakeholders need...2021-05-1929 min
The Trusted Web PodcastOrganizing the Fight Against Misinformation with Ferdi Özsoy, Program Manager, The Poynter Institute‘Fake news’ has multiple definitions, which can be a problem. Ferdi Özsoy helps to highlight the main types of misinformation, and how individuals can be best equipped with consuming online content. As the Program Manager at the Poynter Institute, Ferdi joins the show today to distill the core principles that drive the success of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) – a unit of the Poynter Institute dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide.The Poynter Institute is a non-profit journalism school and research organization located in St. Petersburg, Florida. Join our conversation as we explore the work th...2021-05-1232 min
The Trusted Web PodcastCorrecting Social Media with Dr. Leticia Bode, Associate Professor, Georgetown UniversityToday’s guest extensively researches about the focus on exposure to and correction of misinformation on social media. Dr. Leticia Bode is an Associate Professor in the Communication, Culture, and Technology master’s program at Georgetown University. She joins me on the show to explore the problems with measuring fake news, and the current state of misinformation on social media and how we can correct it. Leticia’s work lies at the intersection of communication, technology, and political behavior, emphasizing the role communication and information technologies may play in the acquisition and use of politic...2021-05-0521 min
The Trusted Web PodcastLessons from Philosophy with Justin McBrayer, Author of ‘Beyond Fake News’As a Philosopher by trade, Justin McBrayer is not afraid to ask the big questions. I bring Justin on the show to learn more about his research and his latest book ‘Beyond Fake News: Finding the TRUTH in a world of misinformation’. Justin is also a teacher, speaker and writer. Much of his work focuses on helping ordinary individuals and political bodies to think consistently and carefully about the problems they encounter, the values they embrace, and the evidence they've gathered.In this episode we discuss fake stories we’ve been duped...2021-04-2823 min
The Trusted Web PodcastAn Evolving Internet with David Mikkelson, CEO and Co-founder, SnopesA lot has happened since 1994, when David Mikkelson founded the fact-checking website Snopes, formerly known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages. It was great speaking with David to learn more about how the sharing of questionable content has evolved into something very sophisticated today.Snopes started with investigating urban legends, hoaxes, and folklore. Founder David Mikkelson, later joined by his wife, was publishing online before most people were connected to the internet. As demand for reliable fact checks grew, so did Snopes. Now it’s the oldest and largest fact-checking site online, widely regarded by...2021-04-2124 min
The Trusted Web PodcastDisinformation Across Cultures with Costanza Sciubba Caniglia, Subject-Matter Expert at WikimediaToday’s guest comes with a really broad perspective. Costanza Sciubba Caniglia is currently a subject-matter expert at Wikimedia, and is a journalist and researcher in political analysis and communications for government and international organizations. I bring Constanza on the show to learn more about the cultural differences with disinformation.Constanza is Director of Communications for data.org, a platform for partnerships to build the field of data science for social impact. Costanza is also affiliated with the Shorenstein Center for Media Politics, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she co-founded th...2021-04-1418 min
GoodMakersHow Blockchain Can Create A Safe Internet with Sebastiaan van der Lans039: Have you been fooled into sharing fake news on the internet? The spread of misinformation is alarming. In this episode, we speak with Sebastiaan van der Lans, Founder of WordProof, a tool that is using blockchain technology to stamp out misinformation and fraudulent activity on the internet. We talk about the ramifications of misinformation, what blockchain technology is, and how he's using it to create a more trusted internet. Sebastiaan also shares all the different ways creators can verify and protect their intellectual property.
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Satoshi Radio#148 - Chinese concurrentie, Bitonic wint en de lobbyclub van CoinbaseWeer een stampvolle uitzending deze week, maar gelukkig hebben we Sebastiaan van der Lans die ons als 4e host uit de brand helpt. We hebben het over Coinbase: zijn ze geschikt als uithangbord van de bitcoin wereld? Daarnaast bespreken we de afbrokkelende macht van Amerika aan de hand van een uitspraak van Peter Thiel. Natuurlijk bespreken we de overwinning van Bitonic versus DNB en als laatst geeft Sebas een update over de stand van zaken bij Wordproof.
Satoshi Radio wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door: Anycoin direct, Bitcoin Meester, Maven 11, Watson Law, Ledger Leopard, Wordproof en Blox.2021-04-082h 09
The Trusted Web PodcastThe Newsletter as the Ultimate News Format with Arjun Moorthy, Co-Founder and CEO of The FactualEver find you can’t keep up with the news? In today’s world of 24/7 information – and misinformation – Arjun Moorthy, co-founder of The Factual, came up with a solution to deliver unbiased news and trending topics right to your inbox. I catch up with Arjun to find out how they are solving the problem of misinformation through this format.Arjun has always been passionate about news from when he was a paperboy in middle school through becoming editor in chief of The Stanford Reporter. Prior to The Factual, Arjun was VP of Business Development at HubSp...2021-04-0725 min
The Trusted Web PodcastLessons from the Pro-Truth Movement with Tim Ward, AuthorToday’s guest is a real expert when it comes to communications. Tim Ward advises, trains and coaches environmental and development organisations to use effective communications to achieve their goals. In this interview we explore what we can learn from the Pro-Truth Pledge – an initiative that promotes truth seeking and rational thinking, particularly in politics.Tim has teamed up with neuroscientist Dr. Gleb Tsipursky to help citizens learn to protect themselves from lies, and empower them to put truth back into politics. They co-authored the book ‘Pro Truth: A Practical Plan for Putting Truth Back I...2021-03-3125 min
The Trusted Web PodcastBuilding a Strong Media Ecosystem with Dan Gillmor, Co-founder of News Co/LabDan Gillmor is an internationally recognized leader in new media and digital media literacy. He's the author of Mediactive, which explores media literacy in the digital age from a journalist’s perspective. He launched The News Co/Lab in 2017, where their mission is to help ensure an informed citizenry – a fundamental building block of democracy.I really enjoyed this thoughtful conversation as we explored the role of journalists within communities, the key challenges with moderation and why media literacy shouldn’t stop after we finish school.Links Mentioned‘We the Media: Grassroo...2021-03-2427 min
The Trusted Web PodcastNutritional Information for Content with Richard Zack, CEO of Our.NewsThere’s no doubt that the state of fake news today is strong, and today’s guest Richard Zack, CEO & CTO of Our.News, shares how “the Internet is a super spreader event for fake news”. I found today’s conversation empowering as we discussed how the solution to this issue will come from working together.Our.News is on a mission to fight misinformation with interactive Nutrition Labels for news content. Attached to all news and content online, the labels make it easier for anyone to make a quick determination between real and junk news...2021-03-1727 min
The Trusted Web PodcastBlockchain in the Newsroom with Dwayne Desaulniers, Director of Corporate News, Blockchain & Data Licensing at Associated PressIt’s been a remarkable 15 years for the news industry. Today’s guest, Dwayne Desaulniers from Associated Press, joins the show to run through their amazing use case with blockchain – calling the election on blockchain. The timing couldn’t be any better with the 2020 US elections. Dwayne started his career in journalism. His fascination with the intersection of news and technology, and how they work together, has led him to his current role as Director of Corporate News, Blockchain & Data Licensing at Associated Press. As a not-for-profit, AP sits right in the middle as an indepe...2021-03-1642 min
The Trusted Web Podcast“Iffy” Sites with Paul Resnick, Professor at the School of Information, University of MichiganToday’s guest is an expert in identifying real vs fake content that’s circulating across Facebook and Twitter – on a daily basis. Paul is the director of the Center for Social Media Responsibility, University of Michigan, and Paul and his team have developed a way to measure the progress of media platforms at meeting their public responsibilities. They use the term “Iffy” to describe sites that frequently publish misinformation. It is a light-hearted way to acknowledge that their categorization of the sites is based on imprecise criteria and fallible human judgments. They are publishing...2021-03-1020 min
The Trusted Web PodcastMisinformation Cycles with Alan Duke, Co-founder, Lead StoriesAlan Duke has had a fascinating career trajectory to date. As a US army veteran, followed by 26 years with CNN, he then co-founded Lead Stories, an innovative fact checking and debunking website at the intersection of big data and journalism that launched in 2015.The mission of Lead Stories is to help journalists, marketers and others identify and understand what is happening on social platforms with shared content in real time. It’s also a 3rd-party fact-checker for Facebook, using its tools to find fake content early so that it's spread across social platforms can be...2021-03-0346 min
Brandon Stover On LifeSebastiaan van der Lans on Restoring Trust to The Internet, the State of Misinformation, & Blockchain for Social Good | Evolve 054Sebastiaan van der Lans is the Founder of WordProof & Chairman of the Trusted Web Foundation. Sebastiaan is an open source nerd who won Europe’s Blockchains for Social Good contest in 2020 for his innovative dutch startup that is on a mission to restore trust in the internet through transparency and accountability via blockchain timestamping.And with fraud, fake news, and privacy issues the internet has been hungry for this! Within just 6 months of launching they had 162,173 timestamps, 25,000,000+ Unique Pageviews, and 17,000+ Views of WordProof content on youtube. And the spread across the internet keeps climbing. As of today, they...2021-03-011h 06
The Trusted Web PodcastMisinformation vs Disinformation with Pamposh Raina, Independent JournalistBased in New Delhi, Pamposh Raina is an independent journalist. Her recent work has focussed on analysing misinformation and disinformation on social media and closed messaging apps in India. She led a research project commissioned by WhatsApp that analysed the misinformation trends natively on the messaging app during the 2019 Indian parliamentary election. For full show notes visit https://thetrustedweb.org/podcast/.Pamposh has written for international publications, including Foreign Policy Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, News Deeply, and Women in the World. She has been a reporter with The New York Times and...2021-02-2427 min
The Entrepreneur Way1844: Change the World with Your Website with Sebastiaan van der Lans Founder and Owner of Wordproof BVSebastiaan van der Lans is the founder and CEO of WordProof, a documentation firm that offers services for content creation, publishing, content structuring, and copyright protection. “see if you can embrace open source in a way. Open source is really a way to shift world that is about me to a world that is about we… If you are in it for the long-term you can build amazing billion-dollar companies. There is more and more billion-dollar companies, unicorns purely based on open source software and communities. And my challenge for all would be if you embrace the idea...2021-02-2045 min
The Trusted Web PodcastContext is King with Ed Bice, CEO at MeedanOnline Anonymity is to be cherished according to Ed Bice, CEO of Meedan, a global technology not-for-profit that builds software and programmatic initiatives to strengthen journalism, digital literacy, and accessibility of information online and off. In the same breath, however, Ed also calls for a fresh look at how rapidly fake news and damaging disinformation can spread as a result of articles and news pieces not being fact checked and verified. How can we as online users strike that crucial balance between online freedom and making sure that we can trust the information at our fingertips?2021-02-1730 min
The Trusted Web PodcastCreating News Literacy with Alan Miller, CEO of the News Literacy ProjectAlan is the founder and CEO of the News Literacy Project. Established in 2008, this educational nonprofit helped launch the category of news literacy. Following his three-decade journalism career, Alan has also received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize among a dozen other national and state reporting honors. The News Literacy Project provides educators with resources and tools to teach teenagers how to discern fact from fiction in the digital age. More than 19,000 educators in all 50 states and 108 other countries have registered to use the virtual classroom NLP provides.Alan and I share a...2021-02-1025 min
The Trusted Web PodcastInformation Silos with Nolan Higdon, Author of ‘The Anatomy of Fake News’For many people Fake News started to be associated with primarily right-wing, Russian issues. This is where today’s guest, Nolan Higdon, steps in. In order to better understand Fake News, we need to understand its history. Nolan’s book ‘The Anatomy of Fake News’ provides a very comprehensive understanding of this. He believes that although we can’t ever get rid of Fake News, the solution is to be better informed.Nolan Higdon is an author and university lecturer of history and media studies. Higdon’s areas of concentration include youth culture, news media histor...2021-02-0323 min
The Trusted Web PodcastCombatting Information Warfare with Molly McKew, Lead Writer at Great Power“The Internet can be an overwhelming place”, as today’s guest Molly McKew simply highlights. Molly has spent years working in Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, and the Baltic states, including as an advisor to the Georgian President and National Security Council and the former Moldovan prime minister, and as the strategic director of a project to strengthen independent Russian language news and media in the Baltic states. With her expertise in understanding information warfare, I had to bring Molly on to the show to learn more.Her articles have appeared in Politico, the Washington Post, Wired...2021-01-2732 min
The Trusted Web PodcastSolving Misinformation through Journalism with Steven Brill, Co-founder and Co-CEO, NewsGuardMisinformation is not new, but the internet has helped scale its reach now more than ever. In today’s episode I’m joined by journalist Steven Brill, who is also the Co-founder and Co-CEO, NewsGuard, Inc, a tool that provides detailed trust ratings for 6,000+ news websites.I’m excited to be joined by Steve as he’s a true expert when it comes to hoax sites and knowing what platforms like Facebook need to do to be held accountable. Join our discussion as we discuss transparency, the tell-tale signs of hoax sights, the spread of misin...2021-01-2723 min
The Remarkable SaaS PodcastHow declaring war to a problem helps to save the worldThis podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to empowers internet users and content creators with the tools to build a safer and more trustworthy internet. My guest is Sebastiaan van der Lans, Founder and CEO of WordProof and Chairman of Trusted Web Foundation
Sebastiaan van der Lans has a big heart for open source. In 2006 he co-founded Amsterdam’s first WordPress agency ‘Van Ons’, which is a leading digital agency now, serving over 100M page views a year.
Sebastiaan has a strong passion for improving the playing fields of publishing, SEO, and e-commerce.
In 2019, Sebastiaan founded WordPro...2021-01-2548 min
The EmergenceBuilding Trust and Community on the Web with Sebastiaan van der LansEpisode 10 | In this episode, I bring on Sebastiaan van der Lans who is looking to harness blockchain and open source technologies to infuse trust and community into the connection. Sebastiaan is the founder of the Van Ons, Netherlands largest wordpress digital agency and Wordproof, a timestamp blockchain technology revolutionizing the notion of how we verify content on the web.
TOPICS *Fight for a trustworthy web *Wordpress is responsible for 39% of all websites *The future is in open source technologies and communities *Stakeholders are lost in building technology for profit over purpose *Wordpress and blockchain *The Internet has a...2021-01-0452 min
Futurized - thought leadership on the futureHow To Fix Fake News?Sebastiaan van der Lans, founder of WordProof, the startup using blockchain to authenticate content on the internet, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.
In this conversation, they talk about How to Fix Fake News? Players in the Internet content industry, Emerging challenges (Digital Rights Management-DRM, interoperability, fake news, copyright infringement/protection, trust on the internet). Potential solutions (watermarking, DRM schemes, open source, blockchain, timestamping, Schema.org, search engine content authenticity validation). Emerging use cases. Disruptive forces (tech, regulation, biz modes, social dynamics). Future of the Internet (how to get out of the mess, perspectives on the next...2020-12-2844 min
PillowtalkPillowtalk S01E26 – Creativiteit verdwijnt door de komst van AILaatst organiseerden we bij Pixelpillow een hackathon om onze kennis van de laatste technologie te vergroten. Die dag was super leuk, leerzaam en inspirerend! En hoewel we natuurlijk termen als AI, Machine Learning en Deep Fake allemaal wel kenden, hadden we er nog niets mee gemaakt. Daar kwam deze dag verandering in. En het gebruik van deze technologie maakt in zekere zin bepaalde menselijke handelingen overbodig. Maar hoever gaat deze artificiële intelligentie? We filosoferen over hoe ver AI is over een aantal jaar. En kan 't dezelfde briljante werken voortbrengen als Vincent van Gogh? Of kan het dezelfde g...2020-12-2653 min
The Trusted Web PodcastThe Trusted Web ManifestoWhat if you could simply trust all information on the internet? I’m on the mission to build a Trusted Web for all of us on planet earth. Because to save the world, we need to fix the internet. With this special thing called blockchain timestamps; all content you consume will be transparent and accountable. Welcome to the new default on the internet. Thank you for being part of this journey and let’s build the Trusted Web together.2020-12-2115 min
Disruptors for GOOD | Social Entrepreneurs and Social EnterprisesSebastiaan van der Lans // Founder of WordProof----------------------------------------Spotlighting impact startups, brands, and founders.We feature social impact startups, conscious brands, and visionary founders shaping the future of business. Join thousands—subscribe to our weekly newsletter for exclusive interviews, the latest funding rounds, digital tool reviews, and curated products fueling the impact economy.To learn more, please visit causeartist.comIn episode 87 of the Disruptors for GOOD podcast, I speak with Sebastiaan van der Lans, founder of WordProof, on using blockchain technology to create a more transparent and trusted internet for creators, publishers, and en...2020-12-1651 min
Groei door Online Marketing'De betrouwbaarheid van het internet terugwinnen' met Sebastiaan van der Lans (Wordproof)#017 - De betrouwbaarheid van het internet terugwinnen, wereldwijd. Dat is nogal wat. Maar het is de missie van Sebastiaan van der Lans met zijn bedrijf Wordproof. En dat gaat hem lukken, ik denk dat. Maar ook de Europese Commissie heeft hier alle vertrouwen in toen zij besloten 1 miljoen euro over te maken naar Sebastiaan om zijn missie na te streven.In deze aflevering voel ik Sebastiaan aan de tand hoe hij de betrouwbaarheid wil gaan terugwinnen. Meer informatie vind je terug op: https://onlinemarketing.nl/wordproof/2020-11-1336 min
Fast Moving TargetsSebastiaan van der Lans (WordProof): “Wij willen de betrouwbaarheid van het internet herstellen”Ze waren het afgelopen jaar meermaals in het nieuws: bekende Nederlanders die tegen hun zin en zonder toestemming werden gebruikt in campagnes op internet om daarmee bitcoin aan de man te brengen. Het lijkt misschien triviaal, maar mede door dit soort valse campagnes staat de betrouwbaarheid van het internet als geheel op het spel. Fake news is real. WordProof wil daar verandering in brengen.2020-10-0831 min
Tools are toolsSebastiaan van der Lans (WordProof)We chat with Sebastiaan van der Lans of WordProof2020-08-1900 min
Matt ReportWordProof.io: Building trust over the internet through Blockchain & WordPressToday’s guest is Sebastiaan van der Lans, the Founder & CEO of WordProof.io, a new business working to build trust over the internet through blockchain and WordPress.
This was a fantastic conversation that spanned the topics of validating news content, all the way to pitching an innovative product for the chance to win 1 million Euros. (Spoiler alert: He won the 1 million Euros, tune in to find out how!)
I really enjoyed today’s chat with Sebastiaan, and I hope you do too. Follow his company Twitter: @WordProofio
Thank you to our sponsors Sear...2020-08-1838 min
Press This WordPress Community PodcastProtecting your copyrighted WordPress content while improving SEO using tamperproof blockchain timestamps with Sebastiaan van der LansAhhh. Scraper websites. We all know these wonderful ~businesses that relentlessly crawl your website with mischievous bots to download your valuable content and repurpose it in ways that often harm your business or threaten your SEO. If you've ever gone to battle with scraper sites you know it can be a pain to process copyright claims and provide clear cut evidence that the content belongs to you.In this episode of PressThis, we interview Sebastiaan van der Lans of WordProof.io about his plugin and service which timestamps content using tamper-proof blockchain technology to help you prove you're...2020-07-2130 min
Doorbraak RadioSebastiaan Van Der Lans: ‘Klopt de informatie op het internet wel?’Fake news en fraude op het internet zijn vandaag de dag alomtegenwoordig. Het Nederlandse bedrijf Wordproof ontwikkelde een technologie om meer authenticiteit aan nieuws te geven en desinformatie op het internet te bestrijden. In deze aflevering van Doorbraak radio legt oprichter en CEO van Wordproof, Sebastiaan Van Der Lans, uit wat Wordproof precies doet en wat de doelen van het bedrijf zijn.Support the show2020-07-2119 minDoorbraak RadioSebastiaan Van Der Lans: ‘Klopt de informatie op het internet wel?’Fake news en fraude op het internet zijn vandaag de dag alomtegenwoordig. Het Nederlandse bedrijf Wordproof ontwikkelde een technologie om meer authenticiteit aan nieuws te geven en desinformatie op het internet te bestrijden. In deze aflevering van Doorbraak radio legt oprichter en CEO van Wordproof, Sebastiaan Van Der Lans, uit wat Wordproof precies doet en wat de doelen van het bedrijf zijn.Support the show2020-07-2119 min
Dutch blockchain rocks!WordProof: Let's fix the broken web, together! Interview with Sebastiaan van der Lans. Ep. 24An inspirational talk with Sebastiaan van der Lans in his home in the center of Amsterdam. We talked about how WordProof can be used to fix the (broken) Internet. WordProof provides a layer of trust for content and manages to have impact by a massive reach. You might also want to learn how WordProof can help search engines to serve us better. If this is not enough, Learn how they were granted 1.000.000 euro by the EU!
Sebastiaan van der Lans has a big heart for open source. In 2006 he co-founded Amsterdam’s first WordPress agency ‘Van Ons’, which is a leadin...2020-07-1000 min
WP Builds187 – Let’s Fix the Broken Web with WordPress, WordProof and BlockchainHow can you prove that you own your website content. That you wrote it on this date? You can use the WordProof plugin which leverages blockchain technology, that's how. It's not just for your blog content though, it could be used for almost anything and that's what makes it so exciting. That song that you recorded, those legal documents that you need to guarantee were updated last week. If you want to prove that something happened to your content on a certain date and time, WordProof is a WordPress plugin which will enable you to do this. It's such...2020-07-091h 01WP Builds187 – Let’s Fix the Broken Web with WordPress, WordProof and BlockchainHow can you prove that you own your website content. That you wrote it on this date? You can use the WordProof plugin which leverages blockchain technology, that's how. It's not just for your blog content though, it could be used for almost anything and that's what makes it so exciting. That song that you recorded, those legal documents that you need to guarantee were updated last week. If you want to prove that something happened to your content on a certain date and time, WordProof is a WordPress plugin which will enable you to do this. It's such...2020-07-091h 01WP Builds187 – Let’s Fix the Broken Web with WordPress, WordProof and BlockchainHow can you prove that you own your website content. That you wrote it on this date? You can use the WordProof plugin which leverages blockchain technology, that's how. It's not just for your blog content though, it could be used for almost anything and that's what makes it so exciting. That song that you recorded, those legal documents that you need to guarantee were updated last week. If you want to prove that something happened to your content on a certain date and time, WordProof is a WordPress plugin which will enable you to do this. It's such a...2020-07-091h 01
WP Builds187 – Let’s Fix the Broken Web with WordPress, WordProof and BlockchainHow can you prove that you own your website content. That you wrote it on this date? You can use the WordProof plugin which leverages blockchain technology, that's how. It's not just for your blog content though, it could be used for almost anything and that's what makes it so exciting. That song that you recorded, those legal documents that you need to guarantee were updated last week. If you want to prove that something happened to your content on a certain date and time, WordProof is a WordPress plugin which will enable you to do this. It's such a...2020-07-091h 01
WP Builds187 – Let’s Fix the Broken Web with WordPress, WordProof and BlockchainHow can you prove that you own your website content. That you wrote it on this date? You can use the WordProof plugin which leverages blockchain technology, that\'s how. It\'s not just for your blog content though, it could be used for almost anything and that\'s what makes it so exciting. That song that you recorded, those legal documents that you need to guarantee were updated last week. If you want to prove that something happened to your content on a certain date and time, WordProof is a WordPress plugin which will enable you to do this...2020-07-0900 min
WPCoffeeTalkEp 61 WPCoffeeTalk: Sebastiaan van der LansSebastiaan van der Lans is passionate about blockchain. And WordPress. And putting them together. In his own words: I'm interested in discovering ways to operate the whole galaxy on these principles; empowered by WordPress and blockchain!2020-02-2655 min
Satoshi Radio#85 - Zijn timestamps op de blockchain de oplossing tegen fake news?We leven in een tijd waar we enorm afhankelijk zijn van de informatie die we online tegenkomen. Je kan zelfs spreken van een information overload. Maar welke informatie is de juiste info? Wanneer en door wie is het voor het laatst veranderd? Onze gast Sebastiaan van der Lans probeert met zijn bedrijf Wordproof dit probleem op te lossen.
Satoshi Radio wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door: Anycoin direct, Bitcoin Meester, Maven 11, Satos, Watson Law en Ledger Leopard.2020-01-231h 28
The EOS Podcast#87: WordProof.ioWordProof: Hassle-free Blockchain for WordPressSebastiaan van der Lans
www.wordproof.io
“In five years from now, if you don’t timestamp your articles on the blockchain, you’re going to be considered a fraud.”
Brendan Blumer
Mock-ups WordProof:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xYjm5AiadgJigpOta34bo-qosFNQ0us4CkhED4GXjdg
Join WordProof on Telegram:
https://t.me/WordProof
https://wordproof.io
The WordProof Worker Proposal on Telos, please vote (via Scatter o...2019-03-261h 09