Karim Maassen is a Dutch entrepreneur and web fanatic, he is also the founder of nwzer. nwzer is an AI and blockchain assisted, user-generated news agency. It is the world’s first artificial intelligence & blockchain powered citizen journalism platform. According do Karim, nwzer seeks to harness the wisdom of the crowds, remove advertising from the equation and build on trust. We had a long discussion about blockchain, why he would rather not use the word when explaining nwzer and how he sees the technology being used in journalism. Karim Maassen https://twitter.com/KarimMaassen http://www.karimmaassen.com/ nzwer Website: http://www.nwzer.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/nwzer Sign-up for alpha testing: https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/nwzer Civil, the blockchain-based journalism marketplace http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/10/civil-the-blockchain-based-journalism-marketplace-is-building-its-first-batch-of-publications/ How the Blockchain is Redefining Trust https://www.wi