Wikipedia
has barred citations of The Daily Mail after editors of the online encyclopedia
concluded on February 8, 2017 that the British tabloid is "generally
unreliable."
The decision
came after years of long debate over the Daily Mail's credibility among
Wikipedia's active community of volunteer editors. The editors explained that
the decision stemmed from "the Daily Mail's reputation for poor fact
checking, sensationalism, and flat-out fabrication."
As a result,
the Daily Mail and its online offshoot have been "generally
prohibited" as a reference on Wikipedia, "especially when other more
reliable sources exist."
The editors
recommended installing an "edit filter" that will "warn editors
attempting to use the Daily Mail as a reference." They also encouraged the
volunteers to review the thousands of Daily Mail citations already on
Wikipedia, and to "remove/replace them as appropriate."
The Daily
Mail is one of the UK's most commercially successful tabloids, and its website
churning out upwards of 1,600 stories a day is the most-read online newspaper
in the world.
But the
publication has at times been as wildly inaccurate as it is widely read. In
2014, George Clooney ripped the Daily Mail for a story claiming that the mother
of Clooney's then-fiancee, Amal Alamuddin, opposed their marriage for religious
reasons. The story, littered with false claims, was eventually deleted.
Earlier this
week, a lawyer for First Lady Melania Trump re-filed a lawsuit against the
Daily Mail over an already-retracted story detailing claims that she used to be
involved in a "high-end escort" service.
Source CNN
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