Why Wikipedia Is Much More Effective Than Facebook at Fighting Fake News

During the last months of 2019, the English-language Wikipedia community decided to ban a number of media outlets it deemed as unreliable – many of them linked to the pro-Trump right – from being used as sources of its online content. The process of blacklisting media outlets is part of the online encyclopedia’s battle against fake news, and it accelerated rapidly last year, when almost 20 different websites were labeled “deprecated sources” whose reliability is questionable at best.