As humans, we have not evolved to absorb the amount of information that is being thrown at us in such a frenzied way. People can get trapped in the rabbit hole of false or misleading information.

Conspiracy theories help some people make sense of the world. It's easy to say the world is messed up because of the men behind the curtain. It's harder to explore the depths of human psychology to see that it's we the people who are holding the curtain up.