The concept of conspiracy theories as you understand it is a ruse, a misinformation tool.

Look up mk ultra, and some of the other shit the cia has actually gotten up to.

Or hemmingway, being paranoid and crazy. Ah, turns out they were following him and fucking with him, even inside the loony bin!

Nowadays you get qanon and other obviously stupid bullshit rolled under the conspiracy theory label, and that’s the fucking point

So sinclair, the one company that runs basically all major news outlets in the US, can discredit anything with one turn of phrase.

So like yeah, you’re kinda right. But there is real, fucked up shit that gets swept under that label, and ignored at large because of it.