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[MCU] How big of a deal was the revelation of HYDRA after the events of The Winter Soldier in the mainstream public?

A former Secretary of Defense, an apparently major U.S Senator, more than half of S.H.I.E.L.D operatives and god knows who else were implicated in plans to commit genocide that would have dwarfed the Holocaust had they succeeded, not to mention essentially declaring war on every government in the world. Shouldn't have this been a HUGE deal? We see hearings on what happened at the end of the movie, but like, shouldn't have the news about HYDRA have totally freaked everyone out on a 9/11 level scale? Shouldn't have conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones been screaming "I TOLD YOU SO! I TOLD YOU SO!" that there really was a cabal of elites out to kill and enslave everyone?
gpt
The general belief of the public wasn't that Hydra infiltrated the government but that SHIELD tried to hold a coup. The conspiracy nuts *did* scream about Hydra's conspiracy but this was just dismissed as more nuttery because of the disconnect between what the media claimed happened and what actually happened.