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While I am skeptical about these kind of allegations due to the satanic panic in the US in the 80s and 90s, with epstein it looks like it was all projection. It's always projection, all of it.
But what bears repeating, and acknowledging, is: 'Social media platforms and search engines appeared to remove or downrank posts, leading to speculation about deliberate censorship' as some people will take an article not being findable on search engines for it's lack of existence or lack of credibility.
What fucking world do they live in that google is the arbiter of knowledge and truth?
I don't think it makes sense to think of the Satanic Panic as projection. It was a feedback loop between middle-class, stay-at-home moms and the profit-seeking media. No one in that loop was practicing Satanism.
The epstein thing did start after that, that is true, in the 90s, just when these cases were unravelling.