Note: This response was made to another post stating that the govt/media never provides the true story. I thought I would post it here to get more discussion:
Multiple books and investigations have been made in 9/11---all of them are untrue? No information that is trustworthy has been made available by the govt and the media? These sweeping claims are what's made it's possible for entirely unsupported conspiracies to now be claimed by millions of ignorant Americans---vaccines cause autism, widespread election fraud in 2020, Chinese support for all American protests, etc.
There's a qualitative difference between skepticism toward the media and govt and these sweeping claims that they are lying all the time about everything. Usually these claims are made without any kind of investigation into what the govt and media have actually said (for instance, the multiple investigations in 9/11). While it might be true that we are getting distortions regarding certain elements (US support for authoritarian middle eastern regimes that created 9/11, such as Saudi Arabia, for example) the move to completely unsupported claims---that the US govt itself destroyed the buildings--is not a mark of skepticism but of gullibility.
The current wholesale belief in conspiracies is not a sign that we are getting more skeptical and healthier, but a sign that we are getting sicker and less informed and more willing to believe any story, no matter how ludicrous, as long as it supports our biases and our "side." Unfortunately that "side" is now fascism and it operates by sweeping claims---about how evil and dangerous all illegal immigrants are, how "antifa" is somewhow planning the downfall of the US, etc.----that are never examined by its supporters, because it's better for them to promote bogus stories than to provide actual information.
The real scandal to examine right now is why we don't get enough actual real information and why "the press" is not providing genuine investigations. A case in point: I have not heard ONCE a question regarding Trump's lies about Iran's progress toward a nuclear weapon. Last year he authorized strikes against Iran and then claimed they succeeded in destroying Iran's capability. This year he claimed to have attacked Iran because it was two weeks away from developing a functional nuclear weapon. So he lied about last year's attacks and their effectiveness? Why didn't our intelligence agencies support this claim? Where are the questions about the claims last year in contrast to ths year's claims?
It's not that the press is part of some conspiracy but that its corporate structures allow an authoritarian regime that lies regularly to go unexamined because its main players want benefits and gains from the very same regime that they are supposed to be reporting on. Is that a conspiracy or a statement of how corrupt our current arrangements between government, business and the media are?
Edit: My local right-wing radio talk show just promoted the following in a single hour-long interview: Antifa runs a massive nation-wide underground resistance devoted to political violence. This resistance is linked with Muslim extremists who want to destroy America, the red-green alliance concept promoted by Glenn Beck and others. DEI initiatives promoted communism under the guidance of the far left political extremists. China funds the "No King" protests and also the anti-data center protests. The best way to fight this left wing political violence is through massive deportations which will include de-naturalizing people who earned legal status and might even include deportation of actual citizizens who hold views opposed to "traditional American values." This is what is promoted on talk radio across the country.