New York Times confirms it’s using a blockchain to combat fake news

The New York Times Company has revealed new details relating to its ongoing blockchain publishing experiments, which were first revealed by CoinDesk in March. The newspaper’s Research and Development team plans to use Hyperledger Fabric’s permissioned blockchain to authenticate news photographs in partnership with IBM Garage, an accelerator program. The New York Times and partner companies will run a proof-of-concept from July until late 2019 to find a way to maintain trust in digital files. The project aims to store a news item’s “contextual metadata” on a blockchain, including when and where a photo or video was shot, who took it and information regarding how it was edited and published.

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