Because conspiracy theorists are idiots who can't or won't face the facts of reality.
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While true, this doesn't explain why specifically the freemasons are targeted.
Because they are a reasonably long lived organization with at least some rules and rituals that can be used as a base for theories. If they didn't exist, a different organization would be used as the seed, or a fictional one would be made up. Unless you can think of a number of other organizations that for some reason aren't picked on the same way? Church can't be used quite the same, because they are to mainstream and inclusive, though secret societies within churches often get the same treatment.
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Because they're secretive fucks.
The halls are visible to the public. Our friends and family know we are Masons. We have registered charities and bank accounts. The only real secrets are the passwords and handshakes.
I suppose you're based in the US? In most EU countries it's all more secretive. But yeah, Freemasons got murdered during WWII so they aren't to blame.
Most EU countries weren't in the Axis.
Search 'freemason hall [city]' if you don't believe me: it's all out in the open.
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Why is anyone the target of conspiracy theories? If you look at the history of actual conspiracies that have shown up, they're pretty limited in scope.
The Hollywood-style grand, all-encompassing conspiracy makes for neat plot twists in a movie, but we've just got no actual history of them showing up, and if they were occurring, you'd expect some to be exposed.