Yeah see I don’t buy that this is the purpose at all, you don’t change anyone’s mind that way. The purpose, as others have said, is to laugh at conservatives. Which is fine, except that in their eagerness to turn this into another culture-war issue the media are clearly overstepping the mark in the level of certainty in most of the articles. Both these guys on Twitter have been active in exposing fraud in the ivermectin literature and are experts on the controversy:
https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1432286200321044481
https://twitter.com/K_Sheldrick/status/1416789285886304258
If it turns out that ivermectin does actually provide some modest benefit, even more people will quite reasonably conclude that the media are more interested in reifying conventional wisdom than in reporting the truth.