Those are some great questions. My answers are kind of long-winded, and yes, I can show you a conspiracy to create an online echo chamber by the Democrats that has been insidiously scrubbed from the Internet in some sickening ways.

It sounds like conservatives are easier to fool en masse by one person...

That is the deception! The author of the piece is (ostensibly) the person responsible--liberal as fuck Daily Beast writer! Then they pretend that millions of people were "duped" by that foolishness and that something needs to be done (censoring conservative media). Then they audaciously blame the victims of their own ruse for being so stupid that those extreme measures had to be taken. This is textbook CCP propaganda!