• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    While the sentiment of the headline is true, Daily Mail is a terrible source. Per Wikipedia:

    The Daily Mail has been criticised for its unreliability, its printing of sensationalist and inaccurate scare stories about science and medical research,[17][18][19][20] and for instances of plagiarism and copyright infringement.[21][22][23][24] In February 2017, the English Wikipedia banned the use of the Daily Mail as a reliable source.[25][26][27]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail#Criticism

    I just can’t trust any of the details there, even if I want to.

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      18 days ago

      This is a problem with much of UK media. The Telegraph has top tier Ukraine war reporting but I see pro Brexit crap in the sidebar every now and then.

      I posted the article because on its own it seemed fine to post, especially because it embeds a good amount of photos from social media. I don’t have time to sift through endless social media feeds to find the original sources of the videos embedded in the article and when I happen to stumble upon an article I like, I also don’t have time to do a background check of what the outlets publishes as well. I use ad blockers to block entire Recommended side bars and such which is why I often don’t see whatever else websites write. I try to remember your heads up about the Daily Mail but there is a decent chance it’ll escape me in a few weeks when I stumble upon the next Ukraine article by them.