That was an aggressive dysphemism and perhaps I should retract it. They're more like black-hat trolls than terrorists. They push bad ideas into implementation for amusement, but not out of hatred or coercive intent.

Yes, I do believe that "calibration scores" were injected into Google out of a malicious schadenfreude. These people were not trying to do good for their company. They were trying to hurt Google for their own amusement.

When a company has a reputation of a cultural leader as Google did throughout the 2000s, there are people out there who want nothing more than to "hack" it and make it destroy itself.