Yes, but my feeling is that we go a step further. And I suspect most social media companies are already doing this under the hood: Just as Google graphs the r

Yes, but my feeling is that we go a step further. And I suspect most social media companies are already doing this under the hood: Just as Google graphs the relationships between sites and uses that to rank them, also graph the relationships between users and use that to rank them. Like, important figure who's followed by numerous media experts and is consistently upvoted by respected people? Their opinion has weight. 1000 score per updoot. Crank who has few followers, gets all their news from extremists on youtube, and does nothing but hurl insults at politicians all day? 0.01 score per updoot. It's not democratic, but information isn't a democracy. Let them keep upvoting and downvoting. And take that information for what it's worth.