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Costa criticised Wikipedia in HoC Standards Committee

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On 25 Jan 2022, in a question he was putting to Ian Hislop, Costa made a disparaging (and objectively incorrect) remark about Wikipedia:

"Q183 Alberto Costa: Thank you. The questions I am going to ask you are to do with process. I am going to ask you to detach the emotion for a moment, because, as a lawyer, I am a stickler for process. I have been uncomfortable as a member of this Committee about some of the processes that we adopt, regardless of the substance of the cases that we have to deal with. I have just looked at your Wikipedia page. It is never a site to go to for any facts, but it says that Mr Hislop is “reputedly the most sued man in English legal history”. Your lawyers must be very happy at that thought."

The transcript can be viewed here: https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/3344/pdf/

Is this remark notable enough to be added to this article?

Thanks TraceyR (talk) 13:40, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]