I can imagine a scenario where a politician who wants to pick a fight with Google uses some of the unflattering findings in the published work as supporting mat

I can imagine a scenario where a politician who wants to pick a fight with Google uses some of the unflattering findings in the published work as supporting material for why Google needs to be regulated/fined/etc: "Google does {bad thing}. Look at this research report from Google researchers! They admit to doing {bad thing}!"