[ev_rolfe]

I don't think this is something which can be solved by some "killer algorithm".

It seems that this whole fake-news thing is largely because of hacker news-ey type people wanting to use algorithms to make everything better and introducing them into as many aspects of our lives as they can.

Maybe then the solution isn't more algorithms to fix what the existing algorithms are doing wrong but changing the culture of news sources to encourage more stringent journalistic standards? This would require a lot of hard work amongst many people in influential position but most problems are not solved by coming up with the right code.