While some articles might be completely well factchecked and well written, there is clearly little oversite as to who can post what. Popular Mechanics has no issue publishing nonsense such as (https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a*******/mushrooms-on-mars-nasa-photos-life-on-mars/). The article is not satire even though this whole mushrooms on mars thing is a hoax and to date has not been taken down or amended. While I understand it can be difficult to know if something is real, the lack of fact checking is beyond reasonable for a publication to associated itself with anything close to science.