They may be, but it's really up to us to decide how to respond. As you and Ms. Bradshaw said, it's a matter of trust within a society. We need to increase people's trust in institutions.
As you know, the political tactic of sowing chaos and undermining trust is being used not only in foreign countries, but also here at home. It's up to us to decide how stringent the measures we put in place should be. We need to have vigorous political debate without it being a means for foreign actors to sow chaos to harm us and make them think they can get away with it.