Your article
DOES mention
hacking.
And note that this has been going on for a long time.
Longer than US meddling in other countries elections?
Your defense of Russia doesn't even make sense this time.
I defend reality and I always make sense.
The article was about fake news.
Your reading comprehension is failing.
Article was about russian meddling.
No, he was basically correct, because the article was about disinformation techniques that Russian intelligence agencies have been using since well into to the Cold War. In the age of the Internet, disinformation takes the form of fake news websites, paid Russian trolls, and hacking. The article mentioned hacking, but it was about the much broader subject of disinformation campaigns by Russian intelligence agencies.