Just when you thought the Lindsay Clancy case couldn’t get any worse, click-chasing social media conspiracy theorists have dragged it to a new low.

Patrick Clancy, the ex-husband of Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury mom accused of murdering her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, eight months, has been on the receiving end of a vicious online smear campaign.

He lost three young children, yet Clancy has become a target of click-bait ghouls.

His attorney Howard Cooper said Patrick Clancy and his family have been subjected to a “relentless, escalating and destructive defamation campaign” over the past several months, according to reports.

“This campaign of misinformation has been launched and promoted by minor celebrities, so-called influencers and outright conspiracy theorists who appear intent on boosting their own social media profiles and potential profit by publishing what they know to be outright falsehoods that Patrick was somehow involved in the death of his young children and other vile claims,” Cooper said in a statement released Tuesday.

He’s likely speaking of Lisa Rinna, 63, the ex-“Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star who posted a video on social media offering the theory that “Patrick did it.” How did she come to this conclusion? Her therapist allegedly told her that “women typically don’t strangle.”

Rinna’s unfortunately not the only one to go down this rabbit hole. The facts are these: Lindsay Clancy didn’t dispute that she killed her children during her trial. Her lawyer Kevin Reddington instead argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and wasn’t criminally responsible for the deaths. The case ended in a mistrial.

But the facts haven’t offered so much as a moral speed bump to the “forensic fandom” that spread defamatory statements about a grieving father for clicks.

Cooper said that the “insatiable media coverage remains at a fever pitch” and that it has resulted in threats to Patrick Clancy’s “reputation, livelihood, and life.”

Patrick Clancy had to testify about the worst day of any parent’s life. He said his last image of Dawson was of the boy sitting on the couch, eating chicken nuggets and green beans. Lindsay Clancy had asked her husband to make a quick trip for takeout food and medication at a pharmacy for Cora.

Jurors were shown surveillance video from the pharmacy of Patrick Clancy on the phone with his wife, asking a question about the medicine.

Video means nothing when you’re an armchair detective bent on whipping up a frenzy.

Patrick Clancy returned home to ultimately find the bodies of his children. Each had been strangled with exercise bands. The 911 call played in court was chilling.

But social media conspiracy theorists eagerly jumped into the moral cesspool. And hopefully they’ll have to pay for it.

“Enough is enough — this spread of blatant and baseless falsehoods must stop,” Cooper said in a statement. “Those responsible should understand that there will be consequences, and every appropriate measure will be pursued to hold them accountable, including legally. Law enforcement has been notified.”

We hope that those who peddle forensic fantasies have to face justice themselves.

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