[px43]

A key thing missing from today's web is a sense of *reputation*. Websites run by centuries old establishments of fine journalism can look exactly the same as blog spam or straight up fake news websites run by some random internet weirdo.

My solution for this at the moment is the Media Bias Fact Check extension. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/appsextensions/

MBFC has a good breakdown of where any given news source gets their funding, as well as previous articles posted from a particular news source and if they are considered to be reasonably fair, slanted, or provably incorrect.

Really though, this level of exposure to domain reputation needs to be built directly into the address bar of every major browser. People should see flashing red red lights when visiting any domain with a bad reputation. This would also go a long way towards tackling many forms of phishing as well.

Obviously giving this power to some central authority would be bad. I've been donating regularly to MBFC, but I'm not sure how well that scales. What we eventually need is a crowd-sourced domain reputation database. There's a few ways to do this, and really we need the browser support first, and the built in agility to let users point to alternative trust databases. This sort of thing is badly needed, soon.