How Edock News works

Edock News is business news written by the Edock community. What makes it different: every story and every edit stays on a public record that anyone can check, and nobody, not even Edock, can quietly change it.

Who writes it

Any story on Edock Blogs can be marked as News by its author, if the author is on the Edock team or has a blue tick. Members can put out 3 News stories a day. A News story appears here the moment it is published.

Every edit is kept

Each time an author presses Update, the story is saved as a new version. Every story has a page listing all its versions, and each version shows what changed: added words in green, removed words struck through.

The public record

Every version is written into a public record on GitHub. Each entry carries a fingerprint (a SHA-256 hash) of the entry before it, so the entries form a chain. If anyone changed or deleted an old entry, every fingerprint after it would stop matching, and anyone holding a copy would see it.

Once a day the newest fingerprint is stamped on the Bitcoin blockchain through OpenTimestamps, which proves when each entry existed. Copies are also kept by Software Heritage, a public archive of source code.

To check it yourself: download the record and run its check, which needs nothing but Node.js.

git clone https://github.com/edock-in/edock-news-archive.git
cd edock-news-archive
node scripts/verify.mjs

This site is built from that record, and refuses to build if the chain is broken.

Reporting a story

Every story has a Report link. You don't need to sign in. Reports go to the author and to the Edock team. A story is never taken down just because many people reported it: someone at Edock looks at it first, so a group cannot bury true news.

When a story comes down

An author can take their story off News, and Edock can hide a story that breaks the law or Edock's rules. Either way it leaves this site, but the public record keeps it, with a note saying who took it down and why. Nothing disappears without a trace.

Open source

The code that builds this site is open source under the MIT licence, and anyone can suggest changes. Nothing goes live until the Edock team has reviewed and merged it. The only script the site runs is Microsoft Clarity, which shows Edock how pages are read; apart from that it loads nothing from anywhere else.

Licences

Stories are shared under CC BY 4.0: you may republish them if you credit the author and link back. The site's code is MIT. The Edock name and logo are Edock's own.