Talk:The Exposé

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the The Exposé article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

The contentious topics procedure applies to this page. This page is related to COVID-19, broadly construed, which has been designated as a contentious topic.

Editors who repeatedly or seriously fail to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behaviour, or any normal editorial process may be blocked or restricted by an administrator. Editors are advised to familiarise themselves with the contentious topics procedures before editing this page.

COVID-19 Low‑importance

	COVID-19 portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject COVID-19, a project to coordinate efforts to improve all COVID-19-related articles. If you would like to help, you are invited to join and to participate in project discussions.COVID-19Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19Template:WikiProject COVID-19COVID-19 articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

United Kingdom Low‑importance

	United Kingdom portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United Kingdom, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the United Kingdom on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.United KingdomWikipedia:WikiProject United KingdomTemplate:WikiProject United KingdomUnited Kingdom articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Websites: Computing Low‑importance

	This article is part of WikiProject Websites, an attempt to create and link together articles about the major websites on the web. To participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page.WebsitesWikipedia:WikiProject WebsitesTemplate:WikiProject WebsitesWebsites articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Computing.

Alternative views Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Alternative views, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of significant alternative views in every field, from the sciences to the humanities. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion.Alternative viewsWikipedia:WikiProject Alternative viewsTemplate:WikiProject Alternative viewsAlternative views articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

A fact from The Exposé appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 August 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that The Exposé's false claims that COVID-19 was created by Moderna were republished by Chinese state media outlets?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Exposé.

Wikipedia

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 07:00, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

... that the The Exposé's false claims that COVID-19 was created by Moderna was republished by Chinese state media outlets? Source: Polygraph.info, Coda Media
- ALT1: ... that The Exposé was created by a mechanic from Scunthorpe? Source: Logically, Coda Media
- Reviewed:
- Comment: This is my second DYK nomination.

Created by Isi96 (talk). Self-nominated at 00:37, 11 August 2022 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Article is long enough, has adequate sourcing, and the hook is verifiable. However, the article has a bit too much close paraphrasingfor my liking. I also think that this article's hook could be better to be something like this:

ALT2: that the The Exposé's false claims that COVID-19 was created by Moderna was republished by Chinese state media outlets? Source: Polygraph.info, Agence France-Presse, PolitiFact Spodle^Talk 01:41, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Spodle I updated the first hook to your suggestion and made some changes to the content of the article. Hope it's better now. Isi96 (talk) 14:50, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Isi96: Close paraphrasing is much less noticeable.

Nom ready for DYK. Spodle^Talk 01:02, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Is the source used reliable?

This page relies heavily on one source, Logically, which seems to be a blog. Cdefm (talk) 17:30, 19 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Other sources for this page, in the main, are "fact check" articles. "Fact check" articles are opinion articles and not necessarily facts as admitted by Facebook in a court case. Most "fact check" articles are written by writers or bloggers and not experts. "Fact check" articles cannot be considered as credible sources for Wikipedia pages any more than blogs can be.

The more truth pushes through "the more fakeism is promoted" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7F:2D0B:5200:325:6AD3:FCD2:FF32 (talk) 19:31, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The exposé is similar to a blog too, it cannot be considered a reliable source either. 83.37.36.63 (talk) 10:44, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Conspiracy

I believe using the word conspiracy is inadquate as several cases have shown truth in much of the argumentaiton against the "public" narrative. Oxycotin is an example of people being labled "conspiracy" where it indeed deemed to be true what they said. Conspiracy is based on non-fact (according to Wiki), but several courtcases have proven that many of the things deemed as misleading Covid information, is indeed true. Also, who are deeming them false? The same media/organisations that deem the information misleading - which by itself consitute a problem. 93.161.218.211 (talk) 15:20, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

who are deeming them false? That is not the cuestion. The cuestion is, Do you have any proof of what you are publishing?

the burden of proof falls on the accuser, In The Expose many claims are made without evidence, that is the problem 83.37.36.63 (talk) 10:32, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]