Is the Internet a Fertile Breeding Ground for Conspiracy Theories?

There's little question that the internet can help spread false beliefs, including spiracy theories. But there is also research that's shown that misinformation tends to spread faster and more widely than factual information. The media has learned to play into this because they know it makes money. People love to see if a conspiracy theory can be validated. That's just like, wow, then i have conspiracy theories that may be true too. And so people tend to want to spin even further. It's basically been gued out there that conspiracy theories are a symptom of living in a kind of post truth world. Have we seen this kind of a fight against science happened before in history? You know, what really