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This week, Scene staffers are reading stories from The Cut, Michael Hobbes and Vice

Senator Lindsey Graham is not exactly the most tech savvy of politicians -- and he demonstrates this is the most predictable of ways...

Political benefit. and thats what were seeing. >> what is really fascinating, when you look at the mcauliffe line he said about vetoing a bill around sort of curriculum and books had to do with an lgbtq book, i believe, and then youve got the sort of critical race theory moral panic, and then the masking stuff, and its like theres not really a real conceptual connection between the masking and the critical race theory. these are distinct issues, one has to do with public health and the suppressi...

Agree just and gnarly stuff. >> correct, its really important that people think theres a moral panic, obviously, this society was polarized even before social media came to us. -- whats different, is when you have a supercomputer. so facebook is a trillion dollar company, they have one of the largest supercomputers in the world. when you scroll facebook and you think you just hang with your friends are doing, every time you scroll you imagine you activated super control computer, that has seen t...

Sides say we dont have differences on this anymore, were going to do something about it, were going to work together. thats what makes this honestly a transformative moment. i have not seen something like this happen in the eight years ive worked on this topic. >> theres a few things here. whenever i see this theres always some part of me trying to sort through whats new and whats not. if you read about the rwandan genocide, radio rwanda, it was used quite explicitly as the tool to promote that ...

I have a browser open with about a dozen different bad and wrong takes on Section 230 that one day I may write about, but on Sunday...

It would almost certainly be vetoed but its an example of where the critical race theory moral panic was going to end up, literally banning the teaching of uncomfortable truths about americas history. im joined by someone trying to teach the full scope of americas history, brian stevenson the founder and executive director of the equal justice initiative which just opened its new legacy museum in montgomery, alabama, providing a comprehensive of the united states with a focus on the legacy of sl...

A crime. instead of courts they see rive beau rock caseys, instead of hearing evidence they make judgments behind closed doors. this is a story of moral panic, cultural institutions policing or purifying themselves in the face of disapproving crowds. the crowds are no longer literal, as they once were in salem but rather online mobs organized via twitter, facebook, or sometimes internal company slack channels. >> by the way, the victims of this mob justice are certainly not confined to the right...

By Syndicated Content Sony Music UK/RCA Records Nothing but Thieves has announced Moral Panic II, a new EP to follow the band’s 2020 album, Moral Panic. “ Moral Panic II was something we decided to do only after Part I was all mixed, mastered and the records pressed,” NbT says. “It didn’t feel like we were done with the Moral Panic theme — I think partly because we hadn’t been able to tour the project yet, it didn’t feel right to move on. But ...

By Syndicated Content Sony Music UK/RCA Records Nothing but Thieves has announced Moral Panic II, a new EP to follow the band’s 2020 album, Moral Panic. “ Moral Panic II was something we decided to do only after Part I was all mixed, mastered and the records pressed,” NbT says. “It didn’t feel like we were done with the Moral Panic theme — I think partly because we hadn’t been able to tour the project yet, it didn’t feel right to move on. But ...