These are not average people

Plenty of them are?

And most, if not all, had no reason to be suspicious.

Not sure why you're going so hard on making the victims the bad guys here.

Also, you never answered my hypothetical if you'd condemn Lotus Eaters if the UK government went after them, the BBC exaggerated the claims to to boost the attack, and an obvious army of bots were unleashed on them to harass them on all their online platforms.

Because that's exactly what's going on here with Tenet.