For me, "the media publishes things that are not true" does not count as a conspiracy theory. I've never seen eg. Chomsky's Propaganda Model[1] described as a c

For me, "the media publishes things that are not true" does not count as a conspiracy theory. I've never seen eg. Chomsky's Propaganda Model[1] described as a conspiracy theory. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model Edit: After brief googling apparently it has totally been described as a conspiracy theory. I guess this illustrates an issue with the term "conspiracy theory". Edit2: Like other posters, I'd like to know what predictions you're talking about. The big, scary one I recall was the Imperial study that predicted 500k total deaths in the UK in a completely unmitigated scenario, or much lower numbers with various mitigations. As it is we've had 60k deaths so far, with very severe mitigation measures. Which doesn't look like a wildly wrong prediction to me.