I have a freemason lodge right across the street from me. They are Christians who invite all faiths to worship God with them, and do community service work. There is nothing nefarious about it.
The Freemasons are a long standing organization which our founding fathers were a part of. Why should I believe that Christians like George Washington and others were part of an evil organization when I can just believe that anti-Christian groups are trying to demonize Christians?
If some reddit neckbeard is telling me that a Christian group is evil and bad, I am far more likely to think that the reddit neckbeard is a far left Christian-hating liberal. Who are these people making these claims against the Freemasons, exactly?
The same demonizing is made about the Knights of Templar, which were Catholic-Christians who opposed mass immigration and organized to protect their homeland.
We can find a ton of liberals saying the exact same things about Christianity and Catholicism, and how it is really bad and evil, that they don't believe what they preach behind closed doors, and that priests are pedos or that they protect pedos, etc.
There are a ton of people who hate religion. Why shouldn't I assume that there are just more people lying and conspiring about a religiously-aligned organization?