The New York Times wants to fight fake news using blockchain – good luck to it

The New York Times wants to fight fake news using blockchain – good luck to it
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2019-7-24 15:25

Combating fake news, deepfakes, and misinformation is one of modern journalism’s biggest challenges. There have been numerous attempts to help readers recognize when a source shouldn’t be trusted.

One of the latest ideas comes thanks to news media mainstay The New York Times and blockchain technology. In what it’s calling “The News Provenance Project,” the NYT is exploring Hyperledger Fabric with the help of IBM Garage (an innovation incubator of sorts) to build a private and permissioned distributed database to try to prove the authenticity of images used in journalism. That might sound like an oxymoron, but it’s private and permissioned from…

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