Hey Saiditors, help me please! I've been racking my brain for days trying to remember a word or term for a specific form of disinformation. It is intentionally easy to debunk and disprove, and is created by the conspirators themselves to distract and discredit any conspiracy theories that come close to the truth.

Here's a deliberately neutral example:

Suppose Lex Luther wants to steal 40 pies. So he steals the pies and then blows up the bakery by remote-control driving a fuel tanker filled with gasoline into the building to cover up the crime. Dozens of people witness the tanker drive into the building and explode.

But people also discover some surveillance video showing a figure of the same height and size as Lex running away with the pies just before the explosion, and start asking embarrassing questions. And why was Lex Corp standing by with a clean up crew to demolish the building and take the rubble away within minutes of the fire being put out?

So Lex uses his army of minions, sockpuppets and useful idiots to flood the media with the theory that there was no fuel tanker, the building was actually destroyed by Superman, acting on Lex Luther's orders.

Now its pretty obvious that Superman isn't working for Lex Luther, but the sockpuppets manage to make this theory go viral. So now any time anyone tries to talk about that time Lex Luther stole the pies, people just roll their eyes and dismiss you as one of those tinfoil helmet nutters who think that Superman is working for Lex Luther.

I'm positive there is a specific term or word for this kind of counter-conspiracy theory, but I'm damned if I can find it.

Thanks in advance.