Advocates and organizers of legal flash mobs consider "flash mob crime” and similar neologisms used by the media to be inaccurate and damaging to the reputation of flash mobs. Some media has criticized the association of crime with flash mobs, citing the media "responsible for stirring things up", as in many cases the local authorities have not confirmed the use of social media nor other similarities to flash mobs making the "use of the term flash mob questionable.