It's great to be a free thinker and have an open mind, but the embrace of conspiracy theories isn't a sign of that.
Never in my life have I encountered a conspiracist who didn't have a terminal case of confirmation bias. They discount the things reported by the news media as lies and then go straight to infowars and eagerly lap up everything there as truth. The foundation for most of these ideas is misrepresentation, misinformation, poorly cited sources, fear mongering, and anecdotal accounts. The people cultivating these theories aren't held to any standard of journalistic integrity so they're free to create elaborate narratives without any concrete proof. The only difference between that and the news media is that one of the sources has an exponentially higher batting average.
How many conspiracy theories are out there? Thousands? Maybe tens of thousands? And how many of those have been proven to be true? Dozens? That's not a good ratio.
I totally understand that conspiracies are real and do exist, but that doesn't mean that EVERY THING in the world is being controlled by the man behind the curtain. Most of the time things ARE exactly as they appear.