Yes, though by different degrees. I wouldn't take any claim I read on Wikipedia, got from an LLM, saw in a AskHistorians or Hacker News reply, etc., as fact, and I would never use any of those as a source to back up or prove something I was saying.
Newspaper articles? It really depends. I wouldn't take paraphrased quotes or "sources say" as fact.
But as you move to generally more reliable sources, you also have to be aware that they can mislead in different ways, such as constructing the information in a particular way to push a particular narrative, or leaving out inconvenient facts.
Newspaper articles? It really depends. I wouldn't take paraphrased quotes or "sources say" as fact.
But as you move to generally more reliable sources, you also have to be aware that they can mislead in different ways, such as constructing the information in a particular way to push a particular narrative, or leaving out inconvenient facts.