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"Salty" sites

Joey Mann edited this page Jul 20, 2017 · 1 revision

What should go in salt.txt?

In general, any site that either publishes both false and real news without a clear malicious intent or any site based in countries for which there are few other sources because of strict censorship. For example:

  • News sites and state broadcasters run by governments considered not-free.
  • Sites which have a mixed reputation for factual accuracy.

Specific cases

  • Despite being a state-owned broadcaster based in Qatar (which is considered not-free), Al Jazeera is listed in trust.txt. This is because Al Jazeera has a generally good reputation in terms of factual accuracy.
  • Buzzfeed is listed because of their handling of the Trump-Russia dossier and Traingate.
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