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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/uspolitics@lemmy.world

Since 2017, Wikipedia editors have compiled a list of news sources from which articles are highly likely to employ systematic bias, lack professional editing and/or journalistic standards, regularly misrepresent sources, and/or fabricate information.

While its list is by no means a complete list of publications with the aforementioned problems, it has helped make Wikipedia articles more reliable by basing them off of sources covering the same events and information from a more objective and factual point of view.

To make Lemmy news communities better than their Reddit counterparts, I think avoiding links to those sources in favor of more reliable alternatives would be worthwhile.

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[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I think it’s a good idea in principle. It will likely upset a subset of people no matter how you slice it. If someone’s favourite source is on the list, they’ll decry the list as being “anti-chosen world view”

[-] mecfs@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The list is pretty short. And mostly includes:

  1. State sponsered propaganda outlets: Russia Today, Global Times etc
  2. Very Low quality news that might aswell just go find the same story with a better source: Daily Mail, The Sun
  3. Far Right Super Biased News: OANN, Breibart, National Enquirer etc
[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Nice to see Epoch Times in there

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