Almost no one I met at the Palo Alto conference seemed to grasp the severity of the Trump crisis, which was disappointing given the oversized role social media companies had played in fueling it. But there were encouraging developments happening elsewhere. That week, the Steele dossier was published on BuzzFeed. I remember sitting in my California hotel room, relief rushing through me. I was grateful that it had dropped before the inauguration, thinking that its publication had to bring repercussions or at least a straightforward inquiry. It is a bad moment in American life when you are
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