Duh, that's what we were already doing.
Crowd sourcing as a decision making tool - at least informed decision making, has never made any logical sense. Before the generally uninformed/non-critical thinking public and the scientifically illiterate media stupidly and enthusiastically embraced "crowd sourcing" for decision making - we were already using - "Super Influencers (people with demonstrated expertise), 'Big Data' (statistics) and "Machine Augmented Intelligence" (computers). Leave it to the media to rediscover the obvious, invent different terms to state it in, and then claim it as their own.