Honestly I think its the fact that the internet always remembers and "the cover up is bigger than the crime"
Newsweek can claim they were fooled like so many actual innocent victims. Worst case, money trail may implicate some complicit criminals within Newsweek. Communications trail may implicate more. But thats as far as it would go. If they cover it up now, that implicates Newsweek as complicit all the way to now and expands the guilty network to whoever does the deleting (not the same as writing/publishing) and who is there right now ordering the cover up that wasn't there years ago during the propaganda campaign.
Maybe the white hats are forcing them to leave it all up
Honestly I think its the fact that the internet always remembers and "the cover up is bigger than the crime"
Newsweek can claim they were fooled like so many actual innocent victims. Worst case, money trail may implicate some complicit criminals within Newsweek. Communications trail may implicate more. But thats as far as it would go. If they cover it up now, that implicates Newsweek as complicit all the way to now and expands the guilty network to whoever does the deleting (not the same as writing/publishing) and who is there right now ordering the cover up that wasn't there years ago during the propaganda campaign.