# Trust & Safety Organizations

Prominent Trust & Safety organizations at companies that support high volumes of user-generated content can reap the benefits of blockchain technology in collecting real-time information whose authenticity and ownership can be verified at the time of upload. Blockchain technology can be used to combat the following issues:

* Widely proliferated disinformation
* Unchecked harmful content
* Ineffective Content Removal processes
* Fake DMCA takedowns
* Government censorship

### Supporting Articles: 

* "[How Blockchain Can Help Combat Disinformation](https://hbr.org/2021/07/how-blockchain-can-help-combat-disinformation)," Harvard Business Review, Kathryn Harrison & Amelia Leopold, July 2021.
* "[Fighting Fake News: Can Technology Help the Middle East Throw Off The Shackles of Censorship](https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominicdudley/2018/11/21/fighting-fake-news-technology-middle-east-censorship/?sh=60e86e19634a)," Forbes, Dominic Dudley, November 2018.
* "[How Fraudulent DMCA Takedowns Censored a Prominent Cryptocurrency Critic on Substack](https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominicdudley/2018/11/21/fighting-fake-news-technology-middle-east-censorship/?sh=60e86e19634a)," Mashable, Matt Binder, August 2022.