I understand we have all the proof now, but back then, how can someone get intimidated by a call that could easily be fake.

Fair enough, but a decent actor could probably work as well.

How did he prove he was actually himself? Seems like anyone could have done it with a bit of AI.

Duckduckgo’s version is so much better. Unlimited aliases for free.

It’s a trade-off, because they often also want their entire article to be crawled by Google.