I noticed something similar on websites like Reddit. I’ve come across an answer for a question on something I’m well educated on, and their answer is definitively wrong but “sounds correct”. The reddit community will up vote them, and even down vote people who try correcting them.
But then later on I would come across a post on a topic I don’t know, and I’m inclined to believe the answers because they sound right and there’s a group consensus backing it up.