More like "Oh look, another story about extra components inserted by a big state actor. Bloomberg just got burned for this, I'm not going to risk my/my organization's reputation on the slight chance that this one is real"

Or, "Extra chips on the motherboard? You're about a month behind the news cycle and didn't you hear it was all BS anyway"

But the false sense of security interpretation is plausible too.

I wonder who holds conferences on the cutting edge research of manipulating media