He likens the news story and the hysteria to the 80's Satanic Sex scare which imprisoned regular men and women, which was also based on nothing more than some unchallenged claims and took over the whole nation. I wrote a paper about this in college, actually, and also likened these things to the Salem (and other) witch trials. (Later in the video, David Sacks also mentions the comparison with Salem witch trials.) Will this be the same? People in general, even intelligent ones, will just hear something, believe it is true, partially because they're overexcited by the sexual content, commit to it with statements and also with their enjoyment of the theme, and then not admit the contradictory facts until they are forced to do so, after which they'll try to never talk of it again, and since they are 98% of the population, this will be effective. He uses the same word, ‘moral hysteria.’ ‘Witch hunts.’ ‘Feeding frenzy.’