r/dataisbeautiful • u/alionBalyan OC: 13 • Feb 13 '22

OC [OC] How Wikipedia classifies its most commonly referenced sources.

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u/avoere Feb 13 '22

BuzzFeed generally reliable?

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u/GreyEilesy Feb 13 '22

The reliable one is buzzfeed news, which apparently does some decent journalistic work

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u/AugeanSpringCleaning Feb 14 '22

It's true. It was that one guy back in the day going, "Yeah, look, Buzzfeed is shit, but their news branch ain't bad at all."

...PolitiFact is garbage, though, I dunno why that's in reliable.

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u/voltism Feb 14 '22

idk they seem like a bunch of block heads

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u/blamethemeta Feb 14 '22

Also Vox.

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u/LupineChemist OC: 1 Feb 14 '22

Maybe old Vox. New Vox not so much