It's a hypothesis completely unsupported by any evidence, but confidently stated as if it were self-evidently true. This is how conspiracy theories start. Late

It's a hypothesis completely unsupported by any evidence, but confidently stated as if it were self-evidently true. This is how conspiracy theories start. Later, someone vaguely remembers reading somewhere (here) that "the White House asked YouTube to get rid of dislikes," then still later it becomes a story on Fox and Friends: "Why is Biden making YouTube get rid of the like button?" By that time, someone's off the cuff supposition has become part of the dank ocean of fact-free memes that have polluted our discourse.