OP, “several people”, on this site, just means the three people who comment here agree, and two of those three, is a single individual with a split personality disorder.
I would not read too much into it.
A buddy of mine used to whisper the most outrageously silly, fake rumor to the loudmouth in the location and, by the end of the day, that fake rumor had morphed into fact, by simple virtue of it’s now arriving from four different quarters, lending it false legitimacy, as it had now been “verified” by other sources.
Fake news becomes real news or, worse, self-fulfilling events simply by virtue of it’s being thrown out there, put on the table, so to speak.