“What were we supposed to do?” he asked. “We warned people.” “But people will say, why didn’t we do more, why didn’t you speak about it more.” “When?” he asked. “In the fall? Trump was already saying that the election was rigged.” I told him that I worried about the scale of the fake news effort, the disinformation that went beyond hacking. “And do you think,” he asked me, “that the type of people reading that stuff were going to listen to me?”
