It's today explained, I'm Sean Ramosferm.

Back in August of last year we explained QAnon in an episode titled What Is QAnon?

Back in September of last year we made an episode called A Fake News Survival Guide to help

you and your loved ones better identify good information sources from problematic ones.

Today's show is going to be a bit of a case study that calls back to each of those previous

ones.

As a warning, it's going to feature a lot of conspiracy theories, information that is not

only false, but in some cases dangerous.

We're going to try and navigate these conspiratorial waters to try and discover what happens

when someone you love falls deeply into conspiracy theory rabbit holes and how to go about

trying to dig that person you love out.

A Los Angeles filmmaker named Sean Donnelly recently tried to do just that.

The person he loves is his mom and he recently made a documentary about her love of conspiracy

theories.

I was going to make a different documentary about my mom once about those peacocks, which

is a whole other story.

These peacocks showed up randomly and then my mom was like what a blessing, what a sign

from the universe and so she started feeding them and then they stayed there and she loved

them.

Handsome, handsome boy.

So we don't know where they came from but we feel very lucky to have them.

They give me lots of joy.

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