This is pretty prevalent in more than just the current era of our government.

A friend of mine had been lured by the song if a siren after a few weeks of talking online. Sparing the details, she was a bit more of a sociopath, and started posting personal information that he gave to her (nothing major, Street names, real first names, etc). That set him into a major panic, and believed she can get more information easily. He killed off all accounts tied to him, and event tried killing the ones I currently have that we use to promote our podcast. He even debated if we should just kill the project all together.

That's a lesson of how Fear gets you isolated in a single day.