What time is it? It's #MoralPanic O'Clock on Morning Joe.
April 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
What time is it? It's #MoralPanic O'Clock on Morning Joe.
Joe Scarborough in full xenophobic #MoralPanic over TikTok this morning.
January 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Joe Scarborough in full xenophobic #MoralPanic over TikTok this morning.
What time is it? It's #MoralPanic o'clock on Morning Joe.
January 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
What time is it? It's #MoralPanic o'clock on Morning Joe.
Once again, it's #MoralPanic o'clock on Morning Joe: demonizing phones and kids. Technophobic busybodies should leave these decisions to parents.
August 8, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Once again, it's #MoralPanic o'clock on Morning Joe: demonizing phones and kids. Technophobic busybodies should leave these decisions to parents.
This morning on Morning Joe, a festival of bothsidesing, based on David French's column, and #MoralPanic over social media.
September 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This morning on Morning Joe, a festival of bothsidesing, based on David French's column, and #MoralPanic over social media.
It's #MoralPanic O'clock once again on Morning Joe. Today, they're blaming lower high-school math scores on ... the smartphone.
September 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
It's #MoralPanic O'clock once again on Morning Joe. Today, they're blaming lower high-school math scores on ... the smartphone.
After thus giving short shrift to Mamdani's victory, Morning Joe moves on to ... rewinds DVR ... Jim VandeHei and #MoralPanic about AI needing a kill switch. What an irrelevant show it is.
June 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
After thus giving short shrift to Mamdani's victory, Morning Joe moves on to ... rewinds DVR ... Jim VandeHei and #MoralPanic about AI needing a kill switch. What an irrelevant show it is.
The media often seeks simple answers, blaming video games because addressing systemic issues is too complex. #moralpanic
The man who was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson once belonged to a group of Ivy League gamers who played assassins, a member of the group tells NBC News.
'Extremely ironic': Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO slaying played video game killer, friend recalls
Alejandro Romero, who attended college with Luigi Mangione and was a member of the same Discord group, said he was shocked when news broke on social media that Mangione had been taken into police cust...
www.nbcnews.com
December 10, 2024 at 4:37 PM
The media often seeks simple answers, blaming video games because addressing systemic issues is too complex. #moralpanic
Overwritten #MoralPanic, which The Times labels an Idea.
April 6, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Overwritten #MoralPanic, which The Times labels an Idea.
Sigh. Joe does a good job this morning pointing to right-wing attacks, but then bothsides. He defends free speech, but then--because it's always #MoralPanic O'clock on Morning Joe--he attacks the internet and Section 230.
September 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Sigh. Joe does a good job this morning pointing to right-wing attacks, but then bothsides. He defends free speech, but then--because it's always #MoralPanic O'clock on Morning Joe--he attacks the internet and Section 230.
If Books Could Kill podcast did a whole episode debunking this #moralpanic. Put it in the bin w/ pinball, comic books, video games, D&D, Satanic Panic, furries, and trans kids.
November 30, 2024 at 11:44 PM
If Books Could Kill podcast did a whole episode debunking this #moralpanic. Put it in the bin w/ pinball, comic books, video games, D&D, Satanic Panic, furries, and trans kids.
Morning Joe's #MoralPanic du jour is based on New York fucking Post screeching headlines about a "study" that does not come from a university but instead from a private "lab" of moral entrepreneurs. Not linking.
January 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Morning Joe's #MoralPanic du jour is based on New York fucking Post screeching headlines about a "study" that does not come from a university but instead from a private "lab" of moral entrepreneurs. Not linking.
A whole new field of #MoralPanic to plow--from social media to subways and now AI. #MorningPanic
December 11, 2024 at 3:32 PM
A whole new field of #MoralPanic to plow--from social media to subways and now AI. #MorningPanic
TikTok is banned but the #MoralPanic continues. #BrokenPost
January 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
TikTok is banned but the #MoralPanic continues. #BrokenPost
Who does #BrokenCNN have on to discuss Australia's dangerous social media ban but one cause of it (alongside #MurdochMedia): the horrible Haidt, who spews his #MoralPanic BS without challenge (& plugs his book). Where's balance & bothsidesism when it's needed, @CNN?
November 29, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Who does #BrokenCNN have on to discuss Australia's dangerous social media ban but one cause of it (alongside #MurdochMedia): the horrible Haidt, who spews his #MoralPanic BS without challenge (& plugs his book). Where's balance & bothsidesism when it's needed, @CNN?
libguides.uwp.edu/moralpanic
and the way it has actually been applied is redolent of the “social construction means something is malicious and fake” trend, where popular misuse follows bad academic incentives
and the way it has actually been applied is redolent of the “social construction means something is malicious and fake” trend, where popular misuse follows bad academic incentives
Library: Moral Panic: Moral Panic
Library: Moral Panic: Moral Panic
libguides.uwp.edu
February 25, 2026 at 4:40 AM
libguides.uwp.edu/moralpanic
and the way it has actually been applied is redolent of the “social construction means something is malicious and fake” trend, where popular misuse follows bad academic incentives
and the way it has actually been applied is redolent of the “social construction means something is malicious and fake” trend, where popular misuse follows bad academic incentives
Dear world: We know who's incompetent. Help US unredact #EpsteinFiles
Call it what it is: #politicalPurge disguised as #moralPanic
Call it what it is: #politicalPurge disguised as #moralPanic
September 29, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Dear world: We know who's incompetent. Help US unredact #EpsteinFiles
Call it what it is: #politicalPurge disguised as #moralPanic
Call it what it is: #politicalPurge disguised as #moralPanic
This is just idiotic. #MoralPanic. The Times crying AI will kill the truth: "A trust apocalypse is here." Without any examination of what the #BrokenTimes is doing to truth and trust.
Did the Camera Ever Tell the Truth?
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...
Did the Camera Ever Tell the Truth?
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...
June 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
This is just idiotic. #MoralPanic. The Times crying AI will kill the truth: "A trust apocalypse is here." Without any examination of what the #BrokenTimes is doing to truth and trust.
Did the Camera Ever Tell the Truth?
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...
Did the Camera Ever Tell the Truth?
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...
FFS. It's #MoralPanic o'clock again on Morning Joe but now, instead of social media, Scarborough is in a swivet over AI, with his new partner VandeHei, who is swallowing Anthropic's pDoom BS whole. Google #TESCREAL, boys. You're being taken by a cult.
June 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
FFS. It's #MoralPanic o'clock again on Morning Joe but now, instead of social media, Scarborough is in a swivet over AI, with his new partner VandeHei, who is swallowing Anthropic's pDoom BS whole. Google #TESCREAL, boys. You're being taken by a cult.
Morning Joe's DEI for gray-haired white men this morning (and I say this as a gray-haired white man): Deutsch (who opened the crypt and let him out?), Matthews (again?), VandeHei (in full kids-get-off-my-yard #MoralPanic), Barnicle (still?). Then Deutsch has the nerve to mock Biden's age.
May 12, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Morning Joe's DEI for gray-haired white men this morning (and I say this as a gray-haired white man): Deutsch (who opened the crypt and let him out?), Matthews (again?), VandeHei (in full kids-get-off-my-yard #MoralPanic), Barnicle (still?). Then Deutsch has the nerve to mock Biden's age.
Jeezus. The Times sanewashes Ted Kaczynski. #MoralPanic
The Strange, Post-Partisan Popularity of the Unabomber www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/m...
The Strange, Post-Partisan Popularity of the Unabomber www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/m...
The Strange, Post-Partisan Popularity of the Unabomber
When Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto appeared 30 years ago, the internet was brand-new. Now his dark vision is finding fans who don’t remember life before the iPhone.
www.nytimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Jeezus. The Times sanewashes Ted Kaczynski. #MoralPanic
The Strange, Post-Partisan Popularity of the Unabomber www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/m...
The Strange, Post-Partisan Popularity of the Unabomber www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/m...
Media is media-ing again.
Blaming video games, music, or media offers simple answers but ignores deeper systemic issues like inequality, mental health, and violence. It's lazy, unsupported by evidence, and distracts from real solutions that require accountability and change. #moralpanic
Blaming video games, music, or media offers simple answers but ignores deeper systemic issues like inequality, mental health, and violence. It's lazy, unsupported by evidence, and distracts from real solutions that require accountability and change. #moralpanic
December 10, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Media is media-ing again.
Blaming video games, music, or media offers simple answers but ignores deeper systemic issues like inequality, mental health, and violence. It's lazy, unsupported by evidence, and distracts from real solutions that require accountability and change. #moralpanic
Blaming video games, music, or media offers simple answers but ignores deeper systemic issues like inequality, mental health, and violence. It's lazy, unsupported by evidence, and distracts from real solutions that require accountability and change. #moralpanic
John Branch captures the arithmetic of a moral panic: take 2% of the population, add a megaphone and enough xenophobia, and suddenly the GOP sees an invading horde.
The threat isn’t Muslims. It’s the fearmongering. 🐘📣🤦 #Islamophobia #MoralPanic
The threat isn’t Muslims. It’s the fearmongering. 🐘📣🤦 #Islamophobia #MoralPanic
September 3, 2026 at 7:31 PM
John Branch captures the arithmetic of a moral panic: take 2% of the population, add a megaphone and enough xenophobia, and suddenly the GOP sees an invading horde.
The threat isn’t Muslims. It’s the fearmongering. 🐘📣🤦 #Islamophobia #MoralPanic
The threat isn’t Muslims. It’s the fearmongering. 🐘📣🤦 #Islamophobia #MoralPanic
Classic #MoralPanic social entrepreneur behavior.
Soooo tired/.
Soooo tired/.
One of the issues of the trans sports debate was the insanely disproportionate coverage by the right. Fox News would stake out middle school volleyball games and make it national news. It didn't matter if trans athletes were rare and never competed professionally, it just needed to feel like it.
March 28, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Classic #MoralPanic social entrepreneur behavior.
Soooo tired/.
Soooo tired/.