Exactly, that's the difference between the Daily Mail and the the really dodgy ones like the Sun etc - everyone KNOWS the Sun is just full of filth, even the Sun knows it lol, but people seem to actually think the Daily Mail is a "proper" newspaper. It's awful.
And I'm glad my ranting has been cause for someone else to notice how evil they are haha
It's so popular as well, that it's actually dangerous. On a personal level, I find their weird vendetta against trans people absolutely abhorrent (apparently the DM publish something like 8 times as many trans-related articles as any of the other UK newspapers)
But it's the subtly racist stuff and especially the articles about people on benefits that probably have the most dangerous consequences.
Also they constantly post stuff which is literally BULLSHIT. ie "facts" that are actually wrong. And they're called up on it, but only among people who already know what they're like, so the people reading it and believing it don't realise.
Even as a harmless example, when they published the article about my cat and my brother, they MADE UP quotes from my mum lol. Stuff she never even said. Which was just funny in that case, but when they make up statistics etc just to fuel their own hate-filled agenda, it actually affects people's lives.
I could rant about the Daily Mail all day. I'll stop now lol
I have a tshirt that says on it, "I'm the one the Daily Mail warned you about"