Everything that pushes the required narrative gets massively upvoted and accepted as truth without verification, even if falsified later (like the “Ghost of Kyiv” which turned out to be screenshots from a video game)
You can try it yourself. Take a random picture from Google and put a made-up caption on it and note the results.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30548972
Everything that pushes the required narrative gets massively upvoted and accepted as truth without verification, even if falsified later (like the “Ghost of Kyiv” which turned out to be screenshots from a video game)
You can try it yourself. Take a random picture from Google and put a made-up caption on it and note the results.