A major social media player… which Google isn’t. If you look up “Lemmy” I think you’ll find plenty more information about Lemmy Kilminster than a comparatively tiny news aggregator that Google almost certainly couldn’t give a shit about. Even if they did there’s a colossal difference between a government ordering a change and corpo management trying an elaborate psy-op.

It’s good to question closed software and ask what it might be able to do, but this is full-on conspiracy theory stuff.