By conspiracies I don't mean fake alt versions of whatever the MSM says to cause rife but actual deep honest to God discussions of what the government is doing (or perceived to be doing) which may or may not be the 'trending' thing at the moment. Everything has become a spin of the media including alt media that fake news is flying on all sides now and your choking in the middle desperate for some air! You NEED to hand me the Zora Tunic now!!!! 😮😷
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Could be. Consensus cracking and false flag jobs are a common tactic when you want to discredit all criticism, no matter how valid a lot of points are. Look at 9/11, for instance - there's the "inside job" theory, with numerous documented ties between Bin Laden and the Bush clan, the WTC director and his whole family just happening to skip work on that day etc. ... and then there's the "no planes" theory, which adds nothing substantial in terms of why the act was committed, and mostly serves to alienate anyone looking for reasonable discussion.
That said, a simpler explanation might be that general-purpose controversy sells better than detailed argumentation. That is, you'll get a lot more attention with topics like "evil elites/bigots want to kill us all", compared to "inconclusive or deliberately obscured results on vaccine safety". It's kinda like what's called channel decay - like how the History channel went from actual historical content, to a Nazis by day / Aliens by night festival of inanity - simply because these programs got the biggest ratings while requiring the smallest investment.
You can see the same phenomenon even here, with posts of the "evil elites" variety getting way more likes and comments than anything more substantial, and thus hogging the top rankings. Decay like that is hard to reverse, though I'm glad someone's trying.