When Disbelief Becomes Heresy: Moral Panic in the Age of Algorithms

Something has shifted in our culture, and it isn’t subtle anymore.

We are no longer merely divided over facts; we are divided over whether facts should matter at all. Evidence, once the mechanism by which disagreements were resolved, has become optional — sometimes even offensive. In its place, we have moral narratives that demand immediate allegiance and punish hesitation as cruelty.

The DoorDashGirl controversy is not…