The News Provenance Project Wants to Save Journalism Using Blockchain

Technology aimed to blunt the spread of misinformation

There’s a curious sense of irony that The New York Times R&D Lab is looking at an unrefined, if not undeveloped, technology to fix an industry beset by issues created by, well, technology.

Over the past couple of years, the Times has been working with IBM to create The News Provenance Project, looking to answer a few questions that dance around two main themes: the rise of misinformation and using technology to blunt the spread of that misinformation.

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