Sorry, I’m going to fully disagree with you there. There was no “Satan” behind the Satanic Panic; there weren’t hoardes of satanic teens sacrificing animals to Satan and eating babies, or any sort of movement trying to make that happen. It was just a fundie misinformation campaign designed to scare old white people into voting Republican.

The threat of AI-generated and assisted misinformation and disinformation, however, is very real, and has had disastrous effects in the real world. A casual glance at what Cambridge Analytica’s algorithms have done to the US political landscape is all you need to confirm these things are very, very different.