This article is two months old by the way.
Another link from !@queermunist@lemmy.ml focusing more on American politics but this one is much older. "The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”
Sadly, you could be right. It takes so little to start them.
The moon landing is fake crowd got a massive boost from Capricorn One, a movie about a faked Mars mission that came out 5 years after the Apollo missions ended.