For any issue, there's always a bunch of "but really" folks who will try to take something that's fairly obvious, or at least demonstrably true, and say "but really" it's something else that they've pulled out of their rears.
The attraction in these fake takes is that it makes the people who buy into them feel superior to those who are merely interested in the facts.
So today of all days, I see people saying "People say the Civil War was about slavery, but really it was about [SOME NONSENSE].
@DavidSalo Also, this is a recognised bot strategy for sowing chaos in various social media and commenting platforms.
It's worth noting that people who do this consistently may not be people at all.
(I remember how super-excited some tech pundits were when Musk was taking over Twitter and was therefore going save the world from bot-generated noise. I wonder what they're doing now...)