How to handle disinformation on Digg?

This all started innocently enough. As a stickler for finding primary sources for articles, I wanted to find the original article for the Digg post above about James Cameron (it linked to Consequence). But here’s an interesting mystery: I couldn’t find the original Buzzfeed Canada article that this and several other publications (https://washingtonweeklytimes.com/music-2/james-cameron-no-longer-interested-in-american-citizenship-im-over-it/, https://www.archyde.com/james-cameron-renounces-us-citizenship-im-over-it/)

quoted.

Now it’s a great red meat article designed to rile up people, look at the comments, (it even hooked me!) but I’m beginning to think this is a fake story.

I like to err on the belief that Digg users are good and, their intentions were just to share a fun story, but one that turned out to be false. After all, this is not the most important post to give a second thought about. But, if you put on your tin hat and posts like these are trial balloons for real disinformation, then this is a conversation worth having with what should be done to combat this in /politics and /news.