Why do people do this? This kind of outright lying does way more harm than good. Almost every point you made is a complete lie, misrepresentation of the facts, or misunderstanding the source material. That kind of BS just pushes people away from caring. We have dealt with the aftereffects of people doing this kind of crap with pollution/global warming. Both important issues that were delayed from being acted upon because people felt they had to lie about statistics to win people over. Instead it just bolstered the opposition and created doubts in people in the middle.

Even on sites like FB today people will post a picture of an polar bear on an icefloat and caption it "The last piece of ice for miles, global warming killed this polar bear". No, that picture is from a 1987 wildlife documentary and it was just fishing, there is a massive landmass right outside the picture's frame.

There is plenty of bad shit that happend with Flint, there is no need to lie. The same goes for global warming and pollution. Sensationalism and lying does long term harm.