Yup and the way this stuff can dictate lives is honestly sad. It's been interesting to follow how people locally have been made to think they are constantly in some kind of danger to a point where they replicate that feeling in their communication with other people all the time, warning others of burglers or "youth gangs" (there isn't any). Buying expensive security systems or services to feel safe when in fact it is very safe. Opting for nato and so forth.
But they have been consuming the tabloids warning about someone stealing their shit or attacking them in the dark or those scary russians for so long that the danger becomes real in their minds. And then gets replicated in the everyday by mouth to mouth warnings like "you shouldn't leave your bike outdoors here because x and y" yet when you ask if anyones bike has ever been stolen it typically turns out it hasn't. Same with all these things "human nature" where the media loves to push that one anecdotal story of the shitties behaviour that then gets turned into how the world works, when it in fact doesn't. The term moral panic fits this very well too, it's what so many of the lib "dangers" are.