Many newspaper articles write about people, but so often there is a spin to the story, which one might or might not notice, that it becomes unclear what is or is not an accurate representation of the story.
In the past it would have been difficult to implement this, as things like image codes would have been difficult to make un-copyable - and thus not able to falsify -, however this is no longer the case.
Since crypto (bitcoin, ethereum, etc.) is basically the secure and retroactively unchangeable logging of events (currency transactions in these cases), this problem can now be solved, as copied codes could be made to always redirect to the located address on the waybackmachine.
This does not solve the entirety of fake news, but it would solve the misrepresentation aspect of it. If a reporter interviews someone, and then does a hatched-job at it, the interviewee could simply choose not to verify the article.
To prevent people being spammed by this process, one could make it required to stake ethereum (or a differrent form of currency) on the request, which would be burned when denied, making it costly to write bad articles and to unnecesarily bother someone through sending a bunch of spam their way.
If someone thinks this is cool and wants to work with it on my, lemme know (no, I'm not the "idea guy" who does jack shit, I've been programming for 5 years and I wanna check out the programming languages/libraries that run the crypto world during summer)
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