Newgon article on 2022 social media panic

[Jim Burton]

Summary:

1. For a period between August and September 2022, those who lived permanently on Twitter could have convinced themselves pedophilia was being normalized on multiple fronts.

2. Without Libs of Tiktok, an online right-wing influencer, the hysteria might not have taken root.

3. The effects of the 2022 hysteria live on in the form of copypasta memes and talking points propagated by the conspiracy right, and are now increasingly hard for their opponents to deny.

4. The impact of MAP (Minor Attracted Person) lobbying groups and activists was not at all insubstantial during this period. We recap how it fits into the broader, media-enabled controversy.

https://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/2022_Twitt ... n_hysteria