Registration and accreditation/verification are two different things. In Poland, the govrnment wanted to register websites, without fact-chekcing afaik
You are probably right, it was some time ago, but did they also not wanted other things that paper publications are required, like storing copy in some archive?
Anyway, accreditation would make it even more troublesome and still would not solve the root issue and even if we focus on scenario OP described: FB ranking the news by trust, there are still many loopholes here. Like publishing true news with a spin or simply spamming worthless articles "Random Celebrity said good things about President Candidate" - just that alone would still do the trick.
Anyway, accreditation would make it even more troublesome and still would not solve the root issue and even if we focus on scenario OP described: FB ranking the news by trust, there are still many loopholes here. Like publishing true news with a spin or simply spamming worthless articles "Random Celebrity said good things about President Candidate" - just that alone would still do the trick.