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Hop-on's Digitalage Files Foundational Patent for AI-Powered Engine to Combat Real-Time Misinformation and Deepfakes
Hop-on's Digitalage Files Foundational Patent for AI-Powered Engine to Combat Real-Time Misinformation and Deepfakes.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n Hop-on's Digitalage Files Foundational Patent for AI-Powered Engine to Combat Real-Time Misinformation and Deepfakes\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n\r\nHop-on's Digitalage Files Foundational Patent for AI-Powered Engine to Combat Real-Time Misinformation and Deepfakes\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nNewly filed patent details a real-time, multi-modal content authentication system; positions Digitalage for B2B licensing to social media platforms, newsrooms, and AI providers TEMECULA, CA / ACCESS Newswire / November 17, 2025 / Hop-on, Inc. (OTCID:HPNN), through its subsidiary Digitalage, today announced the filing of a new U.S. Provisional Patent Application for a foundational technology designed to combat the global rise of AI-driven misinformation, deepfakes, and fake news.\r\n The patent, U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 63/917,946 , titled \"Verifiable Crowd-Sourced News Authentication System\" , details a ‘reputation-gated' verification system. This system is uniquely engineered to authenticate both digital content and its creator before publication, addressing a critical failure point for existing social and legacy media platforms.\r\n This invention directly addresses the core vulnerabilities of legacy platforms, which rely on retroactive content tagging and moderation delays. This reactive model has proven ineffective against the speed and scale of viral misinformation. Digitalage's technology, by contrast, creates a self-regulating framework where accuracy is rewarded and deception is throttled in real time through an AI-augmented trust engine.\r\n \"The current ‘post-then-moderate' model is a catastrophic failure. We are in a global information war, and legacy platforms are losing to deepfakes and disinformation,\" said Peter Michaels, Founder and Lead Inventor at Digitalage. \"This patent is the blueprint for a new architecture. We are building the trust layer the internet has been missing-a system where truth is a prerequisite for reach, not an afterthought. For the first time, trust is verifiable, reputation is dynamic, and content is authenticated before it can do harm.\"\r\n A Multi-Stage Authentication Pipeline\r\n The core of the patent is a multi-stage, AI-augmented trust engine that creates a dynamic reputation score for all contributors. This pipeline is designed to ensure tamper-proof integrit...