This is so common nowadays! It’s an attempt to retroactively justify their work as ethical; if they complain loudly now, a lot of mindless people will be like “well, at least they complained.”

Another recent famous example is the book Careless People that’s critical of Facebook’s culture. Everyone celebrated the criticism, conveniently ignoring that the author proudly worked for Facebook until she was fired in 2017.

They’re fine with a company influencing elections or making war dogs before, but gosh this is just too far!