Russia Inquiry Fails to Unite a Nation

Jim Rutenberg, New York Times

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Between the promotion of alternative narratives and the way the social media platforms have been so slow in describing their inadvertent hosting of the Russian effort, there’s a striking lack of national unity over what appears to have been a foreign incursion in an American election. So you have to wonder how the country will ever come together to do something about it.

“There’s this epic lack of consensus, or active dis-census,” said Shawn Powers, the executive director of the United States Advisory Commission on Public
Diplomacy, who has spent years studying what he calls the “geopolitics of information.”

Mr. Powers was confident that, as the facts come out, the country will find a way to fend off similar attacks. For instance, he said, Facebook, Twitter and Google are
adding new policies to combat false information, fake accounts and nefarious foreign political advertising. ...