Absolutely, but the general populace has so much information thrown at them all day, every day, I really do think most people would just move on from it, because our brains just can't handle everything all at once. Unless there's some specific reason to think about it, we'd move on to the things that impact us more directly.

It reminds me of that thing they do on Jimmy Kimmel, where they ask people about fake news stories, and the people invent answers. It's funny and all, but they do that because it's considered embarrassing not to know about the whatever the fuck insane thing the news just threw at us, while also there being so much of it that it's impossible to remember everything. Plus, we're super suggestable creatures