I assume they were ranked by views or CTR, which is perfectly normal given the current circumstances.
How else can Google News rank them? Follow some news media objectivity ranking on imgur? Hire tons of unbiased people to verify the integrity of all news before adding them into the index?
I'm not playing devil's advocate here but given an uninformed electorate, some form of authoritative truth by either a independent watchdog or government agency is probably a better idea than letting private companies run the media.
There was an effort at Google last year to measure site objectivity. I met the woman running it when she gave a talk in EE380 at Stanford. They have a a database of hard facts, and they're trying to check sites to see if they contradict them. This reduces the site's credibility metric. This was aimed more at medical promotion than politics. The technology was still R&D back then, not production.
How else can Google News rank them? Follow some news media objectivity ranking on imgur? Hire tons of unbiased people to verify the integrity of all news before adding them into the index?
I'm not playing devil's advocate here but given an uninformed electorate, some form of authoritative truth by either a independent watchdog or government agency is probably a better idea than letting private companies run the media.