Honestly (At the risk of getting 0 upvotes for this post), I fear that Steemit's system might help the spread of fake news even further. The way Steemit works is that you get
a) Near-Absolute Free Speech.
b) Money from the number of likes you get, not the number of views.
This is pretty great for a social media site, however, there's a risk for creators to feel like they need to pander to their audience by validating their biases in order to get more likes, and that would include hiding challenging stories, or twisting them to somehow accommodate their audience's worldview.
The sad truth is that The Truth is not always well received.
one modification, the rewards aren't for the NUMBER of upvotes you get, but rather the Steem Power of those upvotes.
1st up, ;-), I like people with a critical mindset and you are right, Steemit could spread fake news. I am always amazed, for example, how many anti-vaccination guys are promoting their agenda on this platform.
I agree, because people will like things they like to believe in, not what is actually true - Bad and crazy things get far more attention than something that is educational.
a) is the best part of dtube, ending the era of youtube/google/corporate censorship
b) unless you're consuming random content, an echoChamber is always going to exist. It will exist offline too with any tribe or cult: any sports fan is only going to hear the good news about their team and not the bad, no matter what platform they consume that news from.
The real question would be: is the echo chamber generated by the content creator or the consumer?