Wibbles
For those of you outside of the UK who don't know what the Daily Mail is like, don't bother following that link.
It is the vilest of the vile. During the 1930s, they were all in favour of fascism. Now, they are more than happy to make stuff up to support their agenda.
Earlier this year Wikipedia editors voted to ban the Daily Mail as a source in all but exceptional circumstances after deeming it “generally unreliable”. The editors described the ban as “centred on the Daily Mail’s reputation for poor fact checking, sensationalism and flat-out fabrication”.
And during the worst years of Stalin's regime of murder and starvation, the New York Times printed gushing articles on the man and the Soviet system. Today I even see kids walking around wearing t-shirts bearing the hammer and sickle emblem of the Soviets, and you can bet your ass that among the hallowed halls of your favorite "liberal" newspapers you will find journalists who have Marxist tendencies and who openly support the Cuban regime and have a poster of Che Guevara up in the office. They will also quite happily print positive statistics on Cuba which have come from the totalitarian regime itself (which is in no way transparent) and are clearly untrustworthy. Michael Moore made a movie on the "superiority" of Cuban health care which, similarly, was based purely on what the communist regime of Cuba fed him (in particular, it's "potemkin" hospitals which are nothing like the hospitals that ordinary poor Cubans are forced to use, out of the way of naive Western eyes). Such bullcrap is routinely peddled as the "truth" by media sources who get away with their propaganda and lies because they're of the "correct" political persuasion.
As for the Daily Mail's "ban" from Wikipedia - a website which is in no way shape or form a reliable source on anything - well, the Daily Mail itself wrote an
article which exposed the truth about how that came about. Wikipedia is one of those highly questionable sources of information which has managed to burrow itself into people's minds as a byword for accuracy, in the same way as Google has become a byword for internet searches.