X is already the world’s real time news layer.
Deepfakes are erasing trust online and we are rapidly approaching a world where nothing posted can be believed.
@OpenOrigins tackles this by stamping photos and videos at the moment they are captured, proving their origin and authenticity using cryptographic traceability. The technology was developed out of research at
@Cambridge_Uni.
If this verification technology were built directly into the X app, every post could carry verifiable origin recorded on a decentralised chain. Anyone could independently check where content came from.
This technology is already being used in major newsrooms to protect authentic media from deepfake manipulation. ITN, the producer behind
@itvnews News and
@Channel4News, is using OpenOrigins to protect its archive from deepfake manipulation.
The system is designed more like Bitcoin than a traditional company product. It runs as a decentralised protocol with multiple nodes, meaning the verification layer would survive even if the company disappeared.
@ElonMusk - if trust in online media is collapsing, why not solve it at the protocol level?
Thanks to Dr Manny Ahmed for joining
@RoxomTV and discussing how this problem can be solved.
@hu_manny_ty @freddienew