It’s Time to Revisit the Satanic Panic - The New York Times
WEBMar 31, 2021 · As the United States shifted with the anxieties of the 1980s, baseless conspiracy theories about satanic cults committing mass abuse spread around the country.
Satanic panic is making a comeback, fueled by QAnon ... - NBC News
WEBSep 15, 2022 · Satanic panic is making a comeback, fueled by QAnon believers and GOP influencers. Baseless accusations are branding people as satanist pedophiles at the speed of the internet — just ask a GOP...
The new “Satanic Panic”? Responding ethically to online anxiety …
WEBSep 2, 2024 · The term “Satanic Panic” was coined to describe a series of lurid, media-fuelled moral panics and conspiracies that arose in North America during the 1980s and which revolved around allegations that children were being raped and even murdered by Satan worshippers.
America's Satanic Panic Returns — This Time Through QAnon - NPR
WEBMay 18, 2021 · In the 1980s, false accusations of satanic ritual abuse spread across the U.S. Now, QAnon has revived those fears, borrowing from the playbook of the Satanic Panic from decades prior.
Satanic Panic’s long history — and why it never really ended
WEBMar 31, 2021 · Culture. Why Satanic Panic never really ended. The collective fears that consumed the US in the 1980s and ’90s are still alive and well — all the way through QAnon and beyond. by Aja Romano....
Satanic panic - Wikipedia
WEBThe Satanic panic is a moral panic consisting of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse (SRA, sometimes known as ritual abuse, ritualistic abuse, organized abuse, or sadistic ritual abuse) starting in the United States in the 1980s, spreading throughout many parts of the world by the late 1990s, and persisting today.
Satanic Panic | CBC News
WEBMarch 15, 2020. In the latest season of the CBC investigative podcast Uncover, host Lisa Bryn Rundle delves into the mass hysteria about satanic ritual abuse, which swept across North America in...
Texas continues to exonerate people who were wrongly convicted ... - NPR
WEBApr 18, 2023 · Texas courts are still exonerating people who were falsely convicted and imprisoned amid the "moral satanic panic" of the 1980s and '90s. Their persecution was based on lies and conspiracy...
Long Before QAnon Conspiracies, The U.S. Was Swept By 'Satanic Panic' - NPR
WEBMay 18, 2021 · NPR's Ari Shapiro reports on what factors contributed to the original "satanic panic" and what it can teach us about the conspiracy theories that attract followers today.
After 30 years, a father is exonerated in 'satanic panic' case
WEBApr 11, 2023 · In the 1980s and 90s, a mass hysteria swept across Texas and the nation around the satanic ritual abuse of children. According to a 1992 FBI report, hundreds of victims alleged thousands of offenders had killed tens of thousands of people as part of what is now called the “satanic panic.”