Fake News: Could A New Online Rating System Help Fight Misinformation?

On the Internet, every day is April Fool's day. "Citizens need to become aware that the internet is a different media environment than TV and newspapers. There are no editors and no gatekeepers," the report's author, Žiga Turk, writes. After having tried other approaches, like partnering with fact-checking organizations, big tech companies like Facebook and Google seem to be now particularly keen on solving the fake news issue by implementing technical solutions, such as scoring web pages or using artificial intelligence to detect them. Other efforts are more focused on improving the media literacy of users as a prerequisite to fight misinformation.