Yeah, the usual /pol/ ragebait spam and s4s cross-board shit posting and porn while jannies are asleep gets tons of replies.
Information isn’t born on 4chan, it just tends to get linked there before a lot of other places, but you can instead build an RSS feed of primary sources and have a lot of the same info. As fun as that zoo is, I think getting a consistently quality curated info feed from it is almost impossible.