Indeed this is what happened according to the chats. Check for example the posts on April 3rd. This whole conspiracy theory relies on selective omission of con

Indeed this is what happened according to the chats. Check for example the posts on April 3rd. This whole conspiracy theory relies on selective omission of context from the messages (I refuse to believe that Silver, Chan and co. are doing it out of incompetence). And of course nobody actually checks a 140 page source document. This also explains why no serious journalist has picked up the story. They do actually read sources.