Frrole[1] tried a similar thing through their endeavor Frrole News [1]. Instead of manual fact-checking, they relied on Twitter data. They developed very advanced ML algos to separate signal from the noise. It grabbed attention with close to a million visitors a month, but ultimately shifted to another business model. Maybe you can get in touch with them.
This seems to happen a lot. Someone makes a wicked way to consume the news, but cant find a way to monetize it other than pivot into social analytics or premium content aggregation. Storyful is the other example that springs to mind. It's nice that frrole at least kept their old product around in some capacity though :)
[1]http://frrole.com [2]http://news.frrole.com/world