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The skeptic movement is a collective endeavor that promotes the respect for knowledge and truth, methodological naturalism, science, reason, critical thinking, and consumer protection, and aims to distinguish legitimate science from pseudoscience, uphold ideological freedom, understand cognitive biases, address specific flawed or pseudoscientific claims, maintain cultural memory of past pseudosciences and scams, and improve science communication and journalism.

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[False] Facebook claim: Photos show children wearing satanic clothing and participating in a satanic club. (www.politifact.com)

submitted 1 year ago by lewosadebu@sh.itjust.works to c/skeptic@sh.itjust.works

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The photos of children participating in satanic rituals at school were created by generative artificial intelligence.

The After School Satan Club, organized by The Satanic Temple, hosted a meeting at a public elementary school in Virginia. But these AI-generated photos do not show the club or real children.

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[–] FlagonOfMe@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

The sad part is how many people in the comments unquestioningly think it's real, and think they are invoking some sort of protection for these kids by saying so in a Facebook comment.

God, why are people so dumb?

[–] C_Leviathan@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Remember kids, if you pray to the mean goat man then the nice ancient desert wizard won't hang out with you after you die from him killing us all.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I guess fashion comes back every 40 years. Wonder if Geraldo Garcia is gonna incite a panic again, considering he's even more off his rockers than he was back during the Satanic Panic days.