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If journalists aren't digging into this story, it's because they don't see anything of substance yet, just unsubstantiated rumors and allegations. The media has a long and sordid history of reporting on the phenomenon according to the dictates of various government agencies. That's why the 2017 NY Times article was so groundbreaking. I still don't know how it made it to print. What we usually get are the attempted takedowns like the WSJ disinfo from last year, about how the phenomenon is just some kind of psyop to hide classified R&D that has nothing to do with reverse-engineering. (Like you would use a cover story that's more interesting than what you later claim to be the truth, instead of a deliberately boring explanation designed to defuse interest. You know, like every other cover story the government has ever invented...) Edit: Here's a whole book on the subject of the media's limitations: Gary Webb was one of its contributors. In it, he says: If we had met five years ago, you wouldn't have found a more staunch defender of the newspaper industry than me ... And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bliss had been. The reason I'd enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn't been, as I'd assumed, because I was careful and diligent and good at my job ... The truth was that, in all those years, I hadn't written anything important enough to suppress.