First of all, there's a difference between "Vox-approved" and what this article envisions Facebook's editorial standards would be. The article suggests "ensuri

First of all, there's a difference between "Vox-approved" and what this article envisions Facebook's editorial standards would be. The article suggests "ensuring that conservatives are well represented among the people making editorial decisions" at Facebook; this is certainly not true at Vox itself. But regarding your main point, about using algorithms rather than humans: it might work to some extent against clickbait or low-quality articles, which is part of what the Vox article is complaining about, but another part is false information, which isn't always possible for a human to distinguish at first glance, let alone a computer. It often requires a bit of research or context. 'Real' news organizations often rely on asking experts in the subject at hand, who can contextualize the information much better than any computer; Facebook's hypothetical editors might not be expected to do that, but they could at least do some cursory Googling, which it's still pretty unlikely a computer could do effectively.