Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News
What they should do isn’t show me news that <i>I’m</i> likely to agree with, but news that nearly noone disagrees with. It should be very easy to notice what has both large numbers of people disagreeing and agreeing with, and people within the same social networks agree with eachother. That type of news could just be supressed. If all that’s left is news with kittens then that’s a glorious success. I can get actual news elsewhere, and Facebook can select a few publications of good quality and <i>replace</i> anyone that shares a breitbart article with a corresponding one from the guardian.