This isn't theory. Its been done by the FBI I believe. I forget the guys name but there was a UFO researcher that was monitoring a military base and the gov was concerned he was going to leak secrets by mistake. An FBI agent was assigned to him to feed him false info so that he would get off the trail. They drove the guy crazy. I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the documentary about him. I believe the FBI agent was in the film.

Then there's was the CIA to the Soviets during the cold war. They made fake documents and spread them in the USSR. That one backfired though. Another US agency found the documents and thought they were real. They showed them to Reagan telling him look at how advanced the Soviet's weapons systems are. We need to move forward with our programs. The CIA found out and went to the other agency and told them hey, those are fake. They didn't care. The docs backed up what they wanted Reagan to do so they didn't tell him.

For a long time I have thought that many of the conspiracy theories and people that push them are operatives either knowing or unknowing of the state. To keep people focused on stupid pointless stuff. There also has been a huge push to stigmatize conspiracy theorism. It wasn't like it is now when I was a kid. There wasn't a real stigma about it.

The meta conspiracy theory lol.

We do live in a post fact world. I firmly believe facts don't matter in the current political environment and arguing about them is a complete waste of time. Though it can be entertaining. If you pay attention to politicians I don't know how you cannot agree that facts don't matter. Look at senator Karen's recent actions. People pick their facts and lies to sell what they want to sell.