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Ms Slinn added: "You just feel a bit stupid, don't you? You think 'how gullible can you be to give £5,000 to people you don't even know who they are?'."

To not see this for what it is can be attributed to being naïve and gullible, to self-deception by outright denial, or to being complicit.

It wasn't true, but "ethics in journalism" was credible-sounding enough to trick gullible journalists into writing stories that cast Gamergate in a more sympathetic light than the misogynist witch hunt deserved.

He has denounced traditional U.S. alliances, beginning with NATO, as scams by which foreigners take advantage of gullible Americans.

And on the other hand, I am exactly the kind of gullible bozo who’s liable to find himself up to his neck in those very conspiracies.