News sources are arranged along a trust/belief axis and a nonpartisan quality access. To construct this graph, a news producer Content Sharing Network (CSN) may be used. This gauges the similarity between news sources by measuring the amount of content directly copied between them. Sources that frequently copy content between one another are assumed to be ideologically similar, and thus are likely trusted by similar consumers. A consumer’s own reading habits may be placed on the CSN, then, to see which sources they will deem as trustworthy.

Using this relationship, sources of slightly higher quality may be repeatedly recommended over time in order to shape the consumer’s habits. This differs from other strategies of misinformation detection that seek to immediately present a consumer with high quality news.