Well, there's definitely lots to chew on. Not your standard Medium political article.

I think we need to acknowledge that the nature of US elections has a great part to play. Too many elections pit the two parties in a 50/50 battle. It's not so much that a disinformation campaign can affect the masses in a wrong way, but it can effect enough citizens to tilt the election result the other way. Hence there is a lot of self-interest to find that tilt. It seem that some of that self-interest has been directed to enticing news organizations to publish or not publish certain political arcs. Both sides can play this game. So too can nefarious forces.