It's no small task to create a program that can churn this stuff out automatically using algos and such. Such articles need sources, and this leads the way for fact-checkers. No source? Then you are immediately marked as disreputable.

Although a common tactic that has worked for years (especially on Wikipedia) is the act of linking to a source, only to find the page either doesn't exist, or the source relies on another source, and that source relies on another source, etc

nowadays people just link to twitter posts as some sort of reliable first hand source