While shadow banning is an option, it’s also a terrible idea because of how it will eventually get used.

Just look at how Reddit uses it today.

I cropped out the screenshot here:

What’s considered the “worst” vs “best” news source will always be an opinion for any individual user. You can’t expect everyone else to share your same values.

Some users may value their privacy more than others.

Some users value news sources based on how much information their journalists are able to provide.

Some users hate clickbait titles and so they avoid those.

Some users prefer smaller news sources that most others haven’t heard of.

For some users, the first thing that comes back in a search result is the best source.

Some users take the time to compare the information on the various sources through something like ground news and they try to pick the one that captures an interesting bit of information.

Well… I can tell you who didn’t do it.

To be fair, what we specifically have is a republic, although we do have democratic voting to elect our representatives.

Some of those representatives take the stance that they can choose whatever they want best, regardless of what their constituents want, because they were voted in.

Other representatives take the stance that they should vote for whatever the majority of their constituents want.

Well… The word “FAIRLY” was written in all caps.

Maybe they didn’t like the way you were voting?

China has enough air pollution that the smog from Los Angeles blows over from there

I think you meant to say:
“China has enough air pollution that the smog from there blows over to Los Angeles”

Anything I could do to make sure my heir continued on with my vision would not be guarunteed, and it would only be temporary. As the saying goes, you’re putting all of your eggs in one basket, from one ruler to the next.

A more permanent solution would be to overhaul the current system and setup checks and balances so that no one person could have too much power.

You could divide up power between an Executive Branch, a Legislative Branch, and a Judicial Branch. Then you put in place like-minded groups of people in each of those branches and voilà.