Scuanon - The Secret Government of the Deep State

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Scuanon is a conspiracy theory that, among many other things, proposes that there is a secret government underneath the government. Tnon started on e chan, and it started there because an anonymous user called q began making cryptic posts claiming they were someone working inside the government. Once donald trump was president, he got rolled into this conspiracy theory as an outsider who became president to disssemble the deep state. They believe hilary clinton runs one of these pagan child trafficking in rings.

When we talk about conspiracy theories we tend to focus on what people believe instead of why, and, more importantly, why they believe those things and not other things. In this episode, we sit down with two psychologists working to change that, and in addition, change the term itself from conspiracy theory to conspiracy narrative, which more accurately describes what makes any one conspiracy appealing enough to form a community around it and in rare cases result in collective action.