Other way around: check the memes first, read and watch more in debt about the subject matter that warrants it.
If I had found out about Kissinger from the regular news rather than lemmy, I would have had to slog through a hundred articles by idiots and cowards calling him a genius before I got to the correct take from Rolling Stone: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cf9fe779-f6f6-4625-b7b3-12206788a1f2.jpeg