Facebook, Wikipedia Off Limits At AFP?
Social networking site Facebook and user-generated encyclopedia Wikipedia are off limits to reporters at Agence France Presse, according to the news agency's bureau chief.
"We have internal rules that are regularly updated [on this matter]. Wikipedia for example, we have a written rule inside the company that forbids any journalist using Wikipedia," Pierre Lesourd told the Lord's Committee on Media Ownership and the News. "We have the same thing, updated last week, for Facebook because of the incident with Bilawal Bhutto in Oxford."
Speaking to Journalim.co.uk, Lesourd clarified the policy, stating that reporters working for the international company could not pick up information from these sites for news without referring to other, more reliable sources for factual clarification.
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