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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines?wprov=sfla1
So your answer is "Yes"?
As the wikipedia article cites peer reviewed study (see study tab) that even though these kind of headlines make up only ~ 2 % of all hesdlines 44 % of them answer "yes", and only 22 % answer "no" with the rest being indecisive.
Somehow you read all that and missed the first sentence.
I think their point is that this stupid internet meme based off of a random tech writer - akin to Cory Doctorow's "enshittification" - is not even backed up by its own citation
Wikipedia is such a shithole...