Moral panic

2019 musical film directed by Todd Phillips

search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, often involving moral panic, or mass hysteria

urban legend about the existence of a game on the Russophonic internet that allegedly incites teenagers to commit suicide

fictional character

feeling of fear spread among a large number of people that some evil threatens the well-being of society

USA-led campaign against illegal drug use and trade

act by a Polish municipality, powiat, or voivodeship declaring their respective regions as free from "LGBT ideology"

Internet hoax

abuse in the context of occult rituals

international movement opposed to a so-called "gender ideology"

2016 clown sightings were reports of people disguised as clowns

the spreading of deliberate fabrications or exaggerations about the crimes committed by an enemy

racial panic in interwar Germany

conspiracy theory that alleges child grooming by LGBT people

Nonprofit organization in France

Mob lynching happened in Palghar where two sadhus and one man were killed

urban legend about malevolent strangers intentionally hiding poisons, drugs, or sharp objects in candy and distributing them with the intent of harming random children

East Javan mass hysteria

type of violence in India