Friday 10 February 2017

NDM: Wikipedia banning unreliable news

Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as 'unreliable' source

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia-bans-daily-mail-as-unreliable-source-for-website
Wikimedia Foundation office in San Francisco, US.

Wikipedia editors have voted to ban the Daily Mail as a source for the website in all but exceptional circumstances after deeming the news group “generally unreliable”. The move is highly unusual for the online encyclopedia which rarely puts in place a blanket ban on publications and which still allows links to sources such as Kremlin backed news organisation Russia Today, and Fox News, both of which have raised concern among editors. 

This is an unusual change for the website because they don't care about the public changing information on the website. It seems the fake news debate is probably impacting the institution.

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