The New York Times (NYT) has built a blockchain prototype for The News Provenance Project to verify the source and edits of a photo. The media company has been exploring solutions to weed out fake news and misinformation, and last year announced it was working on a blockchain pilot with IBM Garage.
Developers at IBM Garage built a solution that tracks a photo’s journey from capture by the photographer, through editing, to publication. This information is stored in the form of photo metadata on the blockchain and can be shared with network members.
Here network members are (theoretical) news organizations and content or social media platforms where the photos might be published.
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