Agence France Presse bans Wikipedia and Facebook as sources
“Agence France Presse banned its reporters from using Facebook and Wikipedia as sources last week, as news organizations still struggle to safely use online (re)sources,” according to journalism.co.uk
“Some newspapers picked up pictures on Facebook about Mr Bhutto, which turned out to be fake.”
Clarifying this point, Lesourd said that journalists couldn’t use these sites as sole sources without referring to other more reliable sources.
http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/530941.php
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