[Suggestion] Disallow the use of sources deprecated by the Wikipedia editing community for unreliability - eviltoast

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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    5 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