These days, many people are going to accept as total truth what they want to believe. Nobody is going to tell them otherwise. No conflicting data will get them to question it. Some people by nature will simply accept the worst thing they can imagine as truth. And some of them actively want it to be the worst. Pick a subject. Pick an ideology.
There have always been such people around. So it is not some new thing. However with the advent of the internet and social media, not to mention the pure explosion in the number of trolls (flamers back in the day), they breed like rabbits and feed onto themselves. I hate to say it but there are a whole lot of people susceptible to what they see on the internet and anonymous people they respond to. In some circles such methods are called 'recruitment'. It really is pretty depressing.
Back to working on shit and putting on some happy music to listen to on my headphones.