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.
Making a mental note to come back here later, as I am busy today and this looks important.
If you are too busy to click through, the list is here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Deprecated_sources
The list itself looks reasonable. Note that on Wikipedia, this is not a blanket ban on discussion, but links that go to those sources generally get removed.
Sounds like a good idea, but I need more time to process the list. It looks like there are tiers to it, not every source is banned outright.