Facebook
plans to have its users rank news sites’ “reliability”. This decision
is in reaction to the 18-month-long “fake news” scandal and is being
promoted as the most “fair and balanced solution” to the issue. The idea
is that the community at large would determine which sites are credible
and which aren’t, and the lowest-ranking ones would somehow be
penalized, possibly by appearing even less on users’ newsfeeds. [ 539
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