Moral Panics
The Better Way conspiracy conference went all-in on the moral panic around trans people
Of all the conspiracy theories promoted at last year's Better Way conference, trans moral panic never came up - sadly, this year they rectified that oversight
The Sound of Freedom: thinking of the children shouldn’t stop us from thinking rationally
Our modern concern for children has been exploited by activists and politicians, like the QAnon-adjacent makers of The Sound of Freedom
The Oceangate tragedy has brought some of society’s ghouls to the surface
Tragedies like the implosion of the Oceangate Titan submersible inevitably attract a slew of people trying to exploit them for their own agenda
Beware the book ban: schools and libraries are a battleground in the culture war
Moral panics and culture war point-scoring are driving book bans in the US - and, given America's culture dominance, around the rest of the world too
15 minute cities: the latest big bad of the conspiracy theory ecosystem
Why did 15 minute cities go from a niche town planning proposal to a full-blown paranoia? Because existing conspiracist networks needed their next big fear
If Vladimir Putin wants to label liberals and the West “Satanic”, so be it
As the invasion of Ukraine continues to falter, Putin has sought to justify his actions with accusations of Satanism - by which he really means Western liberal values
Defending Critical Race Theory is impossible without highlighting the moral panic around it
Defining Critical Race Theory will do nothing to deter culture war figures from stoking the CRT moral panic - we need to call out their tactics, rather than play into their hands
Technophobia: Facebook and computers cause cancer; typewriters apparently don’t
From the archives in 2011, Mark Williams looks at media scaremongering around technology being to blame for social ills
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