My problem with the current situation is that when you discuss or build conspiracy theories, you may be legitimately attempting to figure out a truth that may be out there, and the conspiracy theory can help you to predict and anticipate the future correctly and when it does, it seems to give credence to your theory, as something that may be true.
However, in my experience conspiracy theories are very often not at all used as I suggest above. Instead, they are used to try and create falsehoods.
Further more, the objective of a conspiracy theorist has often nothing to do with possibly unearthing the truth but rather attempting to benefit from the reaction that people / listeners will have to the ideas and conspiracy suggested. So the motivations of a conspiracy theorist artists are likely going to be selfish as oppposee to having the philosophical motivation of unearthing the truth. So, if you have apple trees and sell apples, you create conspiracy theory why the oranges of your neighbor are involved in all sorts of evils. This way, it may help convince people to buy more of your apples instead.
Once you understand where a conspiracy theorist is going with his/her conspiracies, you immediately get to know so much more about the said conspiracy theories. At that point, I do feel the need to have in my vocabulary words to differentiate the two different approaches because I feel that one is good and the other is an evil.
I am not satisfied with differentiating such theories by saying that one is benign whereas the other is malignant because it's like saying that a knife in the hands of a murderer is a malignant knife whereas in the hands of a law abiding person it is a benign knife. No, I think a knife is never either malignant or benin. I think a knife is and will always remain just a cutting tool but that it can be used as a weapon.
So my point here is that the conspiracy theory can be used almost like a weapon but since it's just ideas, talking about it as a weapon makes little sense in my opinion.
So I would like to suggest that when a conspiracy theory is believed to be serving nefarious purposes and attempting to obscure truth, then it should be deemed to be a machine theory instead of a conspiracy theory. My reasoning behind this is that machines are arguably without a soul and therefore can never get to the truth. Furthermore, machines are often used in unethical ways and for selfish purpose. So I think this name I suggest is a good fit for what many conspiracy theorists create. Many of them are in fact machine theorists and not conspiracy theorists. They will side with machines against climate science so as to free machines from any restrictions as they portray themselves in the machines.
So I feel that it is essential to call these conspiracy theory for what they really are and that is machine theories. What do you think?