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What’s fueling the moral panic around TikTok challenges? In part, Facebook.

There Are No Girls on the Internet

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The National School Shooting Day

The idea going around was that there was group of essentially evil men out in a group chat somewhere, planning to all go out and rape on april 20 fourth. And aside from the fact that that is really just not at all how sexual assault works, it was also something that we really just awareness vidioed into existence. There was no evidence of this initial threat at all. But because everybody wen oh, well, it might be a threat. Might be a problem, then they all start turning around and sharing it everywhere, just as a warning. Then we end up in position where millions and millions of people felt afraid for their lives that day,. People didn't leave the

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