Daily fail taking stories off here

[thisisasurvivor]

Just utterly disgusting

How is this allowed?

I posted questions re my abusive ex many times and my goodness if they had lifted my story and published it like they did with another vulnerable poster It would have put me in so much danger

Daily fail you are the worse 👎👎🤬🤬🤬

This comes up time and time again. MN is not some small, tiny little group in a corner of the internet. It's massive, and if you are a woman aged 30-60(?) in the UK then that's particularly true and you post on here, then you're basically posting on a billboard on the school run.

Never ever post anything on here that you wouldn't want on that billboard on the school run. Change details, name change so posts can't be linked and always always remember there's nothing small or private about this place.

So don’t post then if posting on an anonymous forum is so dangerous

Jinx @JaniceBattersby and we even have the same initials... Spooky...

£1000? I'll work for the DM for that.

More like £50. If that.

I get £80 for 1000 actual words on a subject I am knowledgeable about from one magazine, and 75ish for 800 words from another source, ditto subject matter.

No one is getting a grand for 'Someone on Mumsnet/reddit/Nethuns said....' and 'here are some quotes from other posters'.

The truth is, newpapers and magazines are dying, because people are getting their news and information online.

So that is where the news now is, and content providers need to provide content so they scrape the net for whatever folk are reading. Which typically is not 'heres some sensible info about x subject' and generally is 'here is some ridiculous gossip and stupidity from other humans like you'.

It's common knowledge that the Mail (and other outlets) lift directly from here. If them publishing your thread is going to place you in danger then you were extremely naive not to make it less identifying.

It's not lazy journalism. It's just a way of gathering stories that may be of interest to their readers.

If your problems are so severe you don't want anyone else to know, then posting them on a public parenting forum is very silly.

Years ago you had young journalists cycling round on push bikes listening to local gossips to try and pick up news.

This is just the modern equivalent.

Not a fan of the Mail, but it does seem a bit unfair that they get attacked for lifting stories from here, when so many other online "news" sites do the same. So many clickbait articles are just lifted straight from here, or more often, reddit. We're just basically posting free content for them. Although, why are most people reading AIBU anyway? Isn't it mainly for entertainment? How is that different from reading the same story in an article?

Well, lots of posts on Mumsnet begin by quoting a Daily Mail article.

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