> "In response to concerns about Russian interference in the 2016 election, politicians are threatening to take action against companies they have long left alo

> "In response to concerns about Russian interference in the 2016 election, politicians are threatening to take action against companies they have long left alone. By late September this year, when the Senate intelligence committee demanded that Facebook, Google and Twitter conduct internal investigations – and those companies admitted that, yes, foreign actors had used their platforms to communicate misinformation that was viewed millions of times by voters in hotly contested swing states – it seemed fair to ask whether democracy could survive them." I think the above quote is telling. A not-so-insignificant portion of the media class is grasping at the "Russia 'hacked' the election!" story, with the same fervor as a Birther grasping for President Obama's birth certificate.