I have a quite different perception of 9gag.
Yes, some ask for confirmation but it depends very much on the topic.
Wrong topic and facts get downvoted and the fake news prevail.
And not all links to newspaper are considered valid, especially if it's about "woke culture". Then you have to search the reasonable needle in the haystack of transphobia, homophobia and misogyny.
Re:Stable Diffusion Public Release
by gabereiser on Monday August 22, 2022 @03:38PM
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The problem comes from the early adult newsroom interns responsible for sourcing content. They don’t know it’s fake, it sounds like a good click-baity article to them, so they run it. It happens.
They are laughed at anyway if they tell a story coming from a forged photo.
Sure, newspapers could forge stories, display pictures with, I don’t know, Biden’s son with a crackpipe, and make the populace believe untrue stories. But guess what, they already do it anyway, newspapers already “spin” (as they say, i.e. forge, suggest without literally saying) stories all the time.
The world deals correctly with fakes.