Congratulations. You've invented the International Business Times, The Conversation, Forbes "blogs" and any number of low-end and mysterious outlets that exist to be cited by semi-serious outlets like Politico, Wired, etc.. Then, those get cited by television news and NYT and WaPo in quotes for the first article, and without quotes in all subsequent articles. Finally, those new "facts" become enshrined in Wikipedia and come up at the head of every search for any related terms.

A lot of "facts" get created this way. You end up with hundreds of citations, but nobody seems to know (or care about) the original source. And meanwhile, freelance militant conformists (rarely shills, usually people intensely addicted to updoots) use those citations to personally attack people who cite primary sources, and to get those sources banned if possible.

edit: Shills are ancient technology. All you need now a fleet of repost accounts that exist to updoot fools. The fools, having the happiest moment of their lives, then double and triple down, becoming more and more gleefully hostile. That's when you finally have to use a shill to get them to open a patreon. Then you can get the world out of them for a couple grand a month.