> but the bigger problem is that the audience that most “enjoys” and retweets this stuff honestly doesn’t care that it is false. [...] The point is, they believe what they want to believe, and no amount of proof to the contrary will change their mind

All people are like that, just everyone for different topics. I heard so many people say "There are not enough resources on earth so that everyone can have a mobile phone" or the like, which obviously is false. Don't get me started on all the beliefs of lefts and rights in the refugee crisis in Germany. Or take "the free market solves it all" from many liberals, "capitalism is evil" from young contrarians and whatever conservative thoughts from older folks.

My point is, the problem of blind belief is not specific to the audience of those tweets, it seems human nature.