[koheripbal]

You're missing the point entirely.

ZH published unverified content ALL THE TIME. Every readers knows that there's lots of crap there.

BUT - they also release stories waaay before the mainstream. Covid-19 was actively posted throughout January, a full month before the mainstream took it seriously.

I read articles there that were posting preliminary Chinese economic data to show the early impacts, while Reddit and HN were telling everyone that "it's just the flu", "masks don't work", and that emphasizing covid was racist (literally - people were banned from a Reddit subs for trying to warn people - with accusations that they being racist against Chinese).

You have to be an adult and sift through the garbage - but there is quality ahead-of-the-curve content there.