[sjwalter]

This is a really good point and an example of how real investigative journalism is not present in this story.

Was the journalist approached by a co-ordinated group of three former Apple high-level security execs in order for them to Greenwald&Snowden-style inform the public, themselves openly inviting massive career risk (even when "anonymous"), with real skin in the game and thus with real credibility worthy of maybe oh even up to government investigation?

Or did this journalist have a python script that emailed every single public address of all ex-employees of every BigTech corp, looking for responses, robotically fishing out clickbait headlines that harbour the feintest enough outline of what integrity might look like?

Obviously, there's a wide range between these two extremes, including Real Investigative Journalism that oftentimes co-ordinates the investigation itself. But, that is extinct, and since provenance is not established well in the article, my default is, assume the worst, in every case. Yes, literally, bots wrote this article, it means exactly nothing. Fugazi.