Most “conspiracy theorists” (and keep in mind that as pejorative it was seemingly first rolled out by the CIA as part of their domestic disinformation campaigns) are conspiracy HISTORIANS.
Yes, there are dumb people out there spouting hysterical nonsense. But there are a lot of us who have read a lot of orthodox history, which is FILLED with conspiracies and treacheries of every imaginable sort.
To my mind, it takes more effort of will to imagine a world where the rich, psychopathic and powerful are NOT conspiring, than one where they are. Do you think people who make their first billion through being cutthroat do not try and make their second billion the same way?
And I also wanted to paraphrase a Thomas Sowell quote: the primary question is not what is true, but who gets to DECIDE what is true.
Quite often in the present era, the people denouncing “falsehoods” are wittingly or unwittingly the main vectors of falsehoods. Censorship, when directed against compliant spirits, is more or less a vaccination against the truth.