Yes that's another similar and related phenomenon. There are similar stories around of parents finding their teenage kids programmed with neo-Nazi or similar ideologies from spending time in video game forums and then following some rabbit hole.

I remember following rabbit holes as a teen but for some reason my natural tendency toward skepticism defended me from the crazier stuff. If anything contact with nutty sorts of conspiracy theories and cult ideologies just made me more of a skeptic. It seems that some people are more prone to getting sucked in.