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The Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British media organization that publishes a steady stream of sensationalized anti-transgender content.

Background

The Daily Mail was founded in 1896 and is published in London. It was an immediate hit and has enjoyed high circulation for most of its run.

Because of its sensationalized and inaccurate reporting, Wikipedia declared it an unreliable source in 2017. Its current editor is Ted Verity.

They have mentored, nurtured, and published many of the UK’s most anti-transgender activists, including Helen Lewis, Julie Burchill, Peter Hitchens, Katie Hopkins, Richard Littlejohn, Suzanne Moore, and Piers Morgan.

References

Yakovlev, Mikhail (February 5, 2020). The consequences of The Daily Mail’s “trans trolls” and other transphobic media coverage. Media Diversity Institute https://www.media-diversity.org/the-consequences-of-the-daily-mails-trans-trolls-and-other-transphobic-media-coverage/

Yacka-Bible, Sue (February 16, 2018). GLAAD joins call for advertisers to pull ads from the Daily Mail following anti-gay attack on parents-to-be Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black. GLAAD https://www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-joins-call-advertisers-pull-ads-daily-mail-following-anti-gay-attack-parents-be-tom-daley?response_type=embed

 Jackson, Jasper (9 February 2017). Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as ‘unreliable’ sourceThe GuardianArchived  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia-bans-daily-mail-as-unreliable-source-for-website

Collins, Lauren (April 2012). Mail SupremacyThe New YorkerArchived http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/02/mail-supremacy

Goldacre, Ben (16 October 2010). The Daily Mail cancer story that torpedoes itself in paragraph 19The GuardianArchived https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/oct/16/ben-goldacre-bad-science-daily-mail-cancer

Goldacre, Ben (2008). Bad science. London: Fourth Estate. ISBN 9780007240197.

Resources

The Daily Mail (dailymail.co.uk)