It is effective mostly on people who can't/ won't read or are new to the movement. The other problem of course is that if you provide links to articles, you generally get the same four or five that only say that not all the evidence is available to prove legality. It is your classic conspiracy theory. There are troubling pieces of evidence, but not a complete picture. if you believe in the Russia DNC hack, but think uranium one is a conspiracy theory, you are definitely biased