Facebook has a solution for its pesky fake news problem, but it wants its 2 billion users to do most of the work. The social media giant unveiled another major change to the News Feed, announcing it will rank news organisations by trustworthiness based on user feedback, diminishing its own role in influencing what news people see. The move comes after the company faced severe criticism over the last two years for allowing misinformation and propaganda to spread on its platform and for supposedly favouring liberal news platforms over conservative ones. This comes two weeks after Facebook had announced a major overhaul to users News Feeds, to emphasize posts, videos and photos shared by friends and family over publishers and brands. This fresh initiative will not change that but will have implications for what news is consumed on Facebook, potentially favouring the established publishers in media while hurting smaller independent news organisations. This was evidenced in the nearly 9% rise in the New York Times' stock price following the announcement. In a post on Facebook, the company CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained the rationale behind the decision, "The hard question we've struggled with is how to decide what news sources are broadly trusted in a world with so much division. We could try to make that decision ourselves, but that's not something we're comfortable with." “There’s too much sensationalism, misinformation and polarization in the world today,” Zuckerberg added. “We decided that having the community determine which sources are broadly trusted would be…
