This sudden incident posed a considerable challenge for Alt Corporation's public relations department.
After all, their unscrupulous bosses hadn't told them that this was all part of a baiting operation. The poor wage slaves could only spend night after night writing PR statements that might not even do any good.
Honestly, with things having reached this point, crisis PR could no longer accomplish much.
All the evidence had been laid out, after all, effectively tearing away the last flimsy veil. Unless they openly adopted an attitude of "Yeah, we're rotten," they were unlikely to change anyone's mind.
On the third day of the public uproar, however, a glimmer of hope appeared.
On a major forum, a prominent figure in the tech industry pointed out a problem with the conditions presented in the data. Rather than hidden code that had existed from the beginning, it looked more like a string of code someone had forcibly inserted.
His conjecture gained considerable support, but even more people remained skeptical.
After all, this tech heavyweight had been singing the praises of the Alt Conglomerate's research capabilities ever since the project's launch. Now that something had gone wrong, people inevitably assumed he was simply refusing to admit he had been wrong.
Naturally, his post became a trending thread. Netizens who flocked over for the drama branded him a "nano simp" without even bothering to read it.
On the one hand, the label referred to his blind support for the Nanomedical Machines project. On the other, it referred to his blind worship of Jonas.
In short, anything with "simp" in it was hardly a flattering label. This blatantly insulting term put every netizen who questioned the authenticity of the "Nanomedical Machines incident" at a disadvantage.
As it turned out, nothing worked better than indiscriminate attacks. Once