Or more precisely; some people don't. /s

Actually that's a good analogy.

If there weren't people that blindly accepting it as the truth and verified everything this wouldn't be bad, in fact would be good because it could drive attention to something that perhaps was ignored.

Unfortunately large part of population has no idea how to do fact checking, and what's worse many take their news from the Facebook.

I imagine YouTube removing C tutorials because they "encourage harmful behaviors"