Mixing things that might have happened, and have at least some connecting tangentially related info (whether real or coincidental) between them, along with actual conspiracies with no backing is quite the argument leap.

I can't remember the exact technique being used, but I think it's called banding.

Where you intentionally mislead with the obviously wrong thing, and then casually mention the right thing, and tie them together loosely so that the next time it's brought up in conversation, the tied along info comes along with it, like a stored memory.

As an example: Root beer. It's insidious. ... just like the federation.