You don’t have to be a conspiracy theory to realized someone leaked these stories in fairly rapid succession and it’s not a leap to suggest that person has an agenda. Not everything is a conspiracy but when it only has to involve a few people the odds go up.

When one story comes out, other related stories that have been around are a lot easier to get limelight. And it's much easier to surface new dirt in those situations too. So I wouldn't use rapid succession of multiple stories as indicative of anything.

> When one story comes out, other related stories that have been around are a lot easier to get limelight

I've already heard stories in social circles in Silicon Valley from senior folks in the industry that they didn't share before. Not because they were hiding anything. But because it wasn't topical. There are a lot of scumbags, and there is a lot of corruption to go around right now.

You’ve already made an assumption there that both stories were leaked by the same person. What’s the evidence to back that up?

The first story came from sources close to the White House, or something along those lines. Makes sense since it was a national security issue. The second story is internal to the company.

“sources close to the White House”

I am pretty sure under normal circumstances, a person with 160 billion dollars that leads a 4 trillion dollar company is able to cause these stories to never materialize.

If someone thinks there is not a lot of sex going on in the c-suite maybe you need to get out more.