[kazamaloo]

it is sort of a placeholder approval. The actual reviews may be done by a legal team, HR/PR, other researchers in the field etc.

[mehrdada]

Do you have actual information or just randomly speculating about the nature of that "approval" under a newly created anonymous HackerNews account?

[FeepingCreature]

A "placeholder approval" is also known as an "approval". If they didn't want to approve it, they shouldn't have done it.

[kazamaloo]

what you refer to as "they" are two different entities.

[FeepingCreature]

If the company doesn't even have a clear indication who is authorized to approve things, that seems much more a Google problem.