Pay close attention to the fact that you never heard about this old story until recently.

The Elite don't keep Their secrets and orchestrate Their coverups primarily by presenting counterevidence, or promoting bullshit narratives, or silencing those who try to expose them. Frankly, that part of the effort is trivial.

Rather, They subtly arrange affairs so that these types of stories are just never talked about, so that they slowly pass from human consciousness. All They need do is keep that up longer than anyone who opposes them can keep the Truth alive.

This is one single example. Conspiracy theorists like to congratulate themselves on how they "already knew all about it". To me, such statements are an admission of the fact that they have fallen short of understanding the deeper game, which is--in fact--why the Elite succeed in the first place.