alt Hacker NewsTo be fair this is the kind of thing the media and the public love to follow. Public powerful figure, sex, spying, political and business schemes, and additionally most retail investors being exposed to NVDA, it has everything. Doesn't mean it wasn't coordinated at first to get it in the spotlight, but there is no need for that now I think.
Yeah, this is pretty much peak eyeball soap opera drama kind of "tea", as they say. It has my parents talking about it, and they couldn't be less in tune wih tech and AI and GPUs. And apparently US intelligence was aware of this for over a year; they were simply told to not dig deeper.
Hanlon's razor seems to apply here, so I don't really think it's a psyop. Simply information many (top secret) parties were aware of for a while that other people who are incentivized to tell everyone eventually caught up on.