@CauseEffects

With added emphasis, where the problem begins:

"I had 👉assumed👈 that if someone shared something, they read and thought about it, that they're supporting or even championing the content. You might expect that maybe a few people would occasionally share content without thinking it through, but for most shares to be like this? That was a surprising, very scary finding."

To make blind assumptions relegates one to the cognitive prowess of a lemming.