> This is typical of Google, providing a technical solution to a human problem that can't be solved easily.

Google didn't want to do this. It was the traditional media attacking google, facebook and social media after the last election.

> Not everything can be tweaked with an algorithm.

It's not a tweak. It's getting google to align with the traditional media's rhetoric.

If washingtonpost or the nytimes says X, then google has to adhere to X.