I use the term "satanic panic" to refer to an extremist backlash towards various media by puritan conservatives because they think it inspires cult activity

Indeed. Yet those people are so rare as to be statistical noise, and have even less political power than their miniscule numbers would suggest. The only place they exist in any real numbers is in the imagination of liberals who are trying to weaponize our own principles against us.

Aside from widespread defamation, said moral panic allegedly resulted in vandalism of stores and personal property, family violence, conflicts between school staff and parents, brawling, and even false police reports and attacks by corrupt cops with possible evidence planting.

Speaking of things that never happened...