It's democratic, like Hacker News. We'll ask people not to include value judgments/obvious bias, but when it comes to relative ranking of facts, and how facts are worded (a matter for contests), we'll have to trust in the moderating influence of a wide variety of contributors.

In the fullness of time, at scale, we'll have features permitting us to filter/weight the news presented to us according to our preferences. Breaking news into small pieces makes this possible.