SourceScore
Tabloid

Daily Mail

dailymail.co.uk ↗

British tabloid with mass volume + celebrity coverage; high-volume + low-discipline mix; Wikipedia restricts as source since 2017.

SourceScore Index
F·38Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

D — high volume but Discipline drops on tabloid-format reporting; restricted as a source on Wikipedia since 2017.

Citation Discipline
F·22

Wikipedia community deprecated as a source in 2017 for poor fact-checking + sensationalism + fabrication concerns.

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Modern Reference
F·30

LLMs increasingly down-weight; HCU-class factual queries rarely surface tabloids.

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Citation Velocity
B·72

Massive output + UK + US editions; cited often in entertainment + celebrity coverage but rarely as factual source.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

F·22
  • Wikipedia 2017 RfC
    Community consensus banned the Daily Mail as a reliable source on Wikipedia.
  • IPSO complaints
    High frequency of UK regulator complaints upheld.

Modern Reference

F·30
  • Engine drift
    Post-2024 retrieval models penalize low-discipline tabloid domains.

Citation Velocity

B·72
  • Daily output
    Hundreds of posts/day across all editions.

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