I ran across this article later on, but it captured my impression of the people I interacted with. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/22/online-conspi

I ran across this article later on, but it captured my impression of the people I interacted with. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/22/online-conspiracy-theories-feed-holocaust-denial https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/22/online-conspir... “They are people who have reached their 40s or 50s and have embraced the internet as it has grown and new platforms have come along. They have moved away from quality newspaper-reading mentality; maybe they’re professionals, some may have degrees, but they are not skilled in assessing sources in history. When you interact with them, you realise that they have no clue as to how we know anything about the past, about how history works, what information is available. They are willing to go along with certain ideas that are summarised for them and simplified in web articles or videos.”