Relevant influencers always use the “exaggerate and amplify” tactic to discredit. You can use it to discredit an organization, idea, anything.

They did a similar thing with pizzagate. Although the motives were a little different, the method was roughly the same: create a straw man, tear it down.

That’s how pizzagate turned from a rational argument against the exploitation of children by elite officials abusing their powers and authority to some weird thing about Hillary Clinton being a human lizard using the dead bodies of children as pizza toppings and feeding them to unsuspecting patrons or whatever lol