I would like to see journalists be more transparent about what in their statement is fact vs. opinion, since lately I've seen pretty clear examples of the opinion as fact on both sides of the aisle. But this sort of a solution sounds terrible - what would prevent the overseas bot farms from downvoting articles that hurt their agenda and upvoting divisive articles?, and why do you, as a company, want to adopt responsibility for trying to police this knowing full well that it'll be on your heads if your efforts fail (or work too well and prevent outspoken parties from being able to boost their favorable news).

This just seems like the absolute worst place to position yourself in the modern world.

PS: Also, aside from all the politics... think about the swarms of bots ad companies would hire to upvote their sponsored content...