Moral Panics

Moral Panics

The Online Safety Act doesn’t make our children any safer

Mike Hall -
The Online Safety Act may be well-intentioned, but it is a fundamentally flawed attempt to legislate away a complex social issue.
Climate Change

When the Great Resist conspiracy conference came to the North East

David Glass -
The Great Resist meeting, and its touring band of conspiracy theorists, brought their antivax rhetoric and trans-panic messaging to Gateshead
Media

Polybius: the legendary video game that never actually existed

Mike Hall -
According to legend, Polybius was a highly addictive 1981 arcade game developed by a shadowy game studio called Sinneslöschen... but it didn't exist
Moral Panics

Got any leads? Dog thieves won’t really leave secret signs outside your house

Brian Eggo -
Claims that would-be dog thieves mark their victims' houses with stickers echo old urban legends designed to spread fear and anxiety
History

Back-masking: you can’t always hear what you want

Sean Slater -
During the Satanic Panic, paranoia that rock music included sinister messages via 'back-masking' made it all the way into the courtroom
Moral Panics

The recent New Jersey drone scare tells us a lot about how panics spread

Dave Hahn -
The New Jersey drone scare is a perfect case study in how panics seize on oddities and unfounded speculation in order to spread fear
Moral Panics

The wealthy, conservative American Christian groups pushing anti-abortion protests in the UK

Michael Marshall -
"Woman arrested for praying" is the latest in a string of legal cases used by US conservative Christian organisations to fight against progress in the UK
History

The Satanic Panic and the McMartin pre-school trial

Sean Slater -
In 1983, lurid and extreme tales of abuse emerged from a pre-school in California; the allegations were false, as was the rest of the Satanic Panic
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