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LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’m not saying this is fact about penguins isn’t true, I don’t know, but this isn’t a real wikipedia screenshot like it acts like it is. In fact, searching for “homosexuality is common in penguins” only returns results for transcriptions of this meme.

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PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
As a penguin, I can say with 100% certainty that there are gay penguins.

We also like to do giant penguin orgies, but we don’t let the researchers see that

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fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Check the article history.

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- LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Haha I’m committed to the truth but not that committed. Anyone can edit an article to put in whatever blurb they want, but it won’t stick for long if most of the community agrees with it and it has decent citations (none of which are in the screenshot). Also the text isn’t written professionally, “love to cuddle” is not language that would normally appear in a scientific wiki article.
  
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  - drathvedro@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    and it has decent citations
    
    Not a case anymore, unfortunately. There are leftist meme articles that only cite tweets and buzzfeed reposting said tweets, but if try to do anything about it, your edits will be instantly reverted and your account gets banned.
    
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    FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Without examples it’s hard to say anything at all beyond guesses really.
    
    But if the article is about a xitter meme, tweets are the original source, and therefore perfectly relevant citations.
    
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- uis@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Was it instareverted?
  
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OldChicoAle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Love that you saw this and was like “this can’t be true. Gotta fact check bullshit”. Like why do you need to go out of your way for that?

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- FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Some people just dislike misinformation, regardless of whether it aligns with their world view.
  
  There are plenty of real reasons homosexuality is natural, why invent fake ones?
  
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- Policeshootout@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Do you typically believe everything you read in meme form?
  
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