cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23066599
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 less biased 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.
Excellent resource, thank you for linking it directly,
& excellent suggestion.
I request that it be put into some site-wide script,
such that if someone uses one of those sources, the script notifies the would-be-poster/commenter that that is an untrustworthy-source, & to please find a trustworthy-source, instead.
This would be like the beginning of an immune-system for Lemmy.world
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