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.