Assuming good faith should not escalate into, basically, knowingly pretending lies are the truth. I think that one of big reasons for why bad actors are succes

Assuming good faith should not escalate into, basically, knowingly pretending lies are the truth. I think that one of big reasons for why bad actors are successful is that well meaning people do the work for them and pretend that up is down and repeat all the lies as if they were the truth.