Civil, an Ethereum-based platform with a heady bid to save journalism, has partnered with Forbes to help the 100-year-old publisher keep its stories free from meddling hands.Matt Coolidge, Civil cofounder, made the announcement today, October 9, 2018, in a blog post. He called the partnership a “major milestone for blockchain-based journalism.” Salah Zalatimo, senior vice president of product and technology at Forbes, said the partnership would allow the media company to provide “unprecedented transparency” around content.  Forbes plans to try out the Civil system next year. Kicking off the process, Forbes will integrate Civil’s software with its own custom-built content management system known as Bertie. Once that process is complete, journalists working under the Forbes umbrella will be able to upload metadata (information pertaining to who published a story and when) to the Civil network at the same time they upload their stories to Forbes.com. The hope is that publishing this metadata onto the blockchain will help to establish the author’s identity and credibility. For added assurance, a Civil “badge” will appear next to articles as a signal that the content’s metadata has been recorded to the blockchain. Forbes will start experimenting with a sampling of content (starting with its blockchain-related stories) in Q1 of 2019. If all goes well, the media company will begin uploading metadata from all o... For Further Information Click on Below Button