The Fbi Classifies Cuanon as a Domestic Terrorist Threat

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Cuanon believers have committed 22 violent incidents in three years, nine of which could be classified as terrorism. Despite this, the c s i s says it doesn't consider cuanon a major threat. In such an environment with so many different attitudes and prejudices, there is plenty of conspiracy theories within that are going to be races and homophobic and mosogenous and worse.

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.