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Because Trump winning is the real issue behind all of these articles. There would be no "Big Tech" backlash (or a lot less of it) if Hillary had won.

It started before then and it exists outside the US as well.

People outside of the US are aware of what happened, and Russia has been targeting other countries elections as well (France, Germany, etc.).

And no one took it seriously.

The only targets that people were worried about were PLCs in power plans and other things that go boom.