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LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 4 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.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 months ago
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 4 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.
drathvedro@lemm.ee 4 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.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 4 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.
uis@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Was it instareverted?
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 4 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?
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 4 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?
Policeshootout@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Do you typically believe everything you read in meme form?
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 4 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