Here's an interesting story from London about how the Agence France-Presse, the oldest press agency in the world surpassing even AP and Reuters, is now barring its reporters from using Facebook and Wikipedia as sources. I couldn't find any rules that were issued by US papers to their reporters, but I'm sure they exist and are probably fairly common. The two sites are classified under virtual sources, which many papers have written rules and ethics codes about. This story came out just this year, which makes me wonder what took them so long to decide since Wikipedia has become so popular.
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