Isn't the accuracy of the predictions kind of orthogonal to the fact that they were basically lying in their attempts to change behavior? Using lies to convinc

Isn't the accuracy of the predictions kind of orthogonal to the fact that they were basically lying in their attempts to change behavior? Using lies to convince someone to do something is going to be more effective than using truth, if that "something" is not in accordance with the truth. The comparison with netflix really breaks down there. You're not going to be able to convince me that I liked Crash, so recommendations based off of that aren't going to be very useful to me. But if you reinforce my false belief that Obama and Soros are gonna use the deep state to invoke Sharia Law on the 2nd amendment, then that might better convince me to vote for so and so.