You make the assumption that the company pays them well or treats them like human beings, rather than gaslighting them into accepting minimal pay, thus supporting the fiefdom of the C-Suite.
No Pay, No Work. Minimal Pay, Substandard Work. Victims fight back against their abusers in passive ways at first. Consider this picture as such.
The information war has been ongoing. If it met a pause, it was only because the USSR collapsed.
Putin was in the KGB, he’s only doing what he knows best, Realpolitik via propaganda.