“When we *uncover* a scandal, we know what to do. But when a scandal is just sitting there, and we point at it, and the perpetrators say, ‘yeah, whatever, screw you,’ we just kind of freeze. We start to doubt ourselves. ‘Well is it really a scandal? They not apologizing...’”

— David Roberts, @drvox, 22 August 2018: a thread about the out-in-the-open nature of disinformation and misconduct.