[Applejinx]

Why are they so frantic if they're on the up and up?

From the attitude, it sounds like they've gone full-on 'be evil' and are legitimately panicked that they will be found out before they can get the kind of power that would render them immune from any consequence to their actions. They must surely understand international politics, and a lot is happening right now in international politics.

I would say Facebook and Google are likely to be smack in the center of what's going wrong, and that in both cases they figured they could learn to control the monsters they unleashed, and stood to benefit.

That would justify any degree of paranoia and hysteria over leaks. There is no purpose in being this frantic over leaks if they know they've not done terrible things.