Hey Tyler, the conspiracist theorists are infiltrating many layers of our life and information consumption. I hope you are not beating yourself for that.
I have been affected in a way with regards to Bill Gates and his contribution to the pandemic/vaccine. Now I'm reading his book about climate crisis, and each step of the way I can think of a way the conspiracists can reinterpret his words into something else.
As you rightly said, the information is flowing so fast nowadays that we don't always Google/do our own research on things. The algorithms pick up things we might have been interested in once and fed us with similar one-sided opinions. If we keep reading them, it's indeed very easy to have a perception that might be fundamentally erroneous.
It's probably time to slow down and be critical again about the information we are being fed.
Thanks for your article, it's very interesting.