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.
I’ll let people in on a secret: I’ve quietly been working to that list for Unitedkingdom and UK Politics when I try to make decisions on whether a source is valid or not. That, and reminding people that DMG has other outlets, such as ThisIsMoney.
If people would like to codify it more formally, we can do that.