That might be the perception, yes, Hence trying to 'educate' about the real facts, (especially the CAS complete exhoneration verdict).To be fair, I can see why to a non-City fan, this sounds weird. You are essentially saying 'you should ignore the journalists and believe a City fan'. To someone who hasn't been keeping up with City's online fanbase for the last few years, we sound like the ones peddling conspiracy theories.
The WhatsApp's group pile-on and doxxing of Rabin, and their obvious coordinated actions at some points, is a lot less likely to gain any traction in other fan bases, more like a 'huh? wtf they talking about' - still doesn't remove the facts from the debate, it was obvious that Rabin was gaining follower traction on Twitter with his time consuming, accurate and repeated pointing out of the sheer hypocrisy (and blatant lying) of most of the sports 'journalists', and they didn't like being humiliated by an 'anonymous' twitterer.