I posted those to your point that liberal media or mainstream media doesn't give a platform to wackos and conspiracy theorists on the other side.
That's clearly not true. Rebekah Jones has been amplified everywhere on mainstream/liberal media. Ditto a discredited grifter/liars/crooks like Michael Avenatti. Virtually every conspiracy theory about Trump was given significant air time, and now the same for Desantis.
As for me addressing the rest of your post...I am not and never have been a defender of Newsmax, MAGA, capitol invaders, Tucker Carlson or any of that. You'll have to look elsewhere for a conservative that defends that wing.
What I do disagree with is this idea that conservatives are somehow mentally more open to conspiratorial thinking or confirmation bias than progressives. It's a human condition, its called confirmation bias.
On that thread I started, more liberals give credence to Rebecca Jones than conservative give credit to the election being stolen. Confirmation bias is a human thing, and you can't overcome it without actively trying to.
I DO however believe that currently Republicans have a bigger problem with conspiratorial thinking than progressives, because agents on the GOP side are purposely and aggressively operating to encourage and harness it among the percentage of wack jobs on their side. It's repulsive. And it's not even in the service of electoral victories, its in the service of one guy and his close cadre. And also grifting. Of course there's always grifting behind it.
There isn't a commensurate effort on the left right now...yet. But if you bounce back a couple years, when progressives believed anything and everything anyone came up with on Trump/Russia, and still believe despite the Mueller report...I would have said it was pretty damn even.
I just think the "we believe in facts, they believe in conspiracies" line being taken now is utter bullshit, and has been proven again and again that liberals and conservatives have confirmation bias.
Why do liberals think COVID is way, way worse than it is? Studies have shown that liberals overestimate the seriousness of COVID by more than conservative underestimate it? Why is that, with the facts so readily available?
I just want people to call bullshit on bullshit, whether its on their their side or not. It would go a hell of a long way toward reducing the current dysfunction. This idea that "progressives don't bullshit, and when they do progressives don't believe them" is just not true, nor productive.