It is also why there is no way to in good faith engage a party in discourse who is hell bent on acting in bad faith.

That is, even the simple act of engaging them in discourse by the more responsible party gives their position recognition which is something by which the lies of that bad actor are validated in the minds of many.

It is also a means by which they are then given an ability to engage you further to promote more lies.

Endless streams of which, via Gish gallop and other styles of "Argumentation" where they will attempt to bury the responsible party in bullshit as it takes categorically more effort to disprove lies than to levy them.

Its a go to far reicht thing that goes wayy back. It works to convince around 30-40% of the general population of some supposed evils of the falsely accused to a point where even when shown that given accusations are false they wills till hold a negative view of the victim of the act.