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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: Currently, a research group labelled “Brainwashers” is researching ways to immunize staff of the Foundation against the effects of SCP-XXXX. Currently, the only way to remove the effects of SCP-XXXX is to terminate the subject and replace them with a clone with the subject’s memories before being affected by SCP-XXXX, which has been deemed unacceptable due to ethical, financial, and practical factors. It has been proven amnestics don’t work on removing SCP-XXXX.

As there is currently no known way to contain SCP-XXXX itself, current containment procedures will focus on minimizing the effects of SCP-XXXX. Agents will be tasked with revealing evidence against instances of SCP-XXXX to prevent further infection, and in the instance that the newly affected reach the 1,000,000 person threshold, puppet accounts will be created on the internet and national interviews with Foundation personnel will occur to provide the factual truth as understood by the Foundation.

Description: Due to the nature of SCP-XXXX, any information about SCP-XXXX in this document could be factually incorrect, and this document is subject to revision. This article is the latest version as of 1/1/2020.

SCP-XXXX is the general name for a series of memory-affecting events that anomalously causes subjects to believe in a fallacy, despite any evidence against it. Individuals affected by SCP-XXXX will begin looking for evidence confirming their belief, and asking others to believe in their version of events, while denying all evidence against their belief. Depending on the number of individuals affected by SCP-XXXX, the belief can get cycled around enough to the point of being treated as fact, despite being factually incorrect. It has also been found that, if an individual is able to convince others of their beliefs, SCP-XXXX will spread to those individuals and compel them to spread the SCP-XXXX version of events.

The specific fallacy is seemingly random, with the topic believed ranging from face-down pennies being bad luck to highly detailed conspiracy theories, as well as the initial amount of people affected ranging from a single person to over 5,000 people at once. The most recent instance of SCP-XXXX occurred during late December 2019, with over 5,000 other known instances occurring throughout the decade. Thanks to the internet becoming a mainstream commodity, SCP-XXXX instances are easier to spread and are more frequent than ever in history, causing the Foundation’s main goal with SCP-XXXX to shift from containment to immunization in the hopes of killing it off, especially due to the source of SCP-XXXX currently being unknown.

Due to the nature of SCP-XXXX, it is hard to know what has been affected by it until a third party is introduced to scrutinize the legitimacy of the subject. This has resulted in over 5,000 SCP-XXXX-related casualties due to Foundation personnel infected by SCP-XXXX writing incorrect information about other anomalies, making illegal modifications to Foundation documents post-archival, and in rare instances creating fictional anomalies. Foundation personnel must get a second opinion on articles being submitted for this purpose, as well as all modifications to articles going through containment archivists.