That's my view as well. In a time of information overload especially, people seem to be far more concerned in simply ending uncertainty, than validating the an

That's my view as well. In a time of information overload especially, people seem to be far more concerned in simply ending uncertainty, than validating the answer that precipitates that certainty. I believe this is referred to as the firehose model of propoganda. It effectively normalizes tu quoque fallacies, as the people whole have taken on a new set of facts are completely unprepared to debate the merits of those facts, and instead fallback to defending their newfound certainty.