Too late to actually matter, so everything going as they planned, it may even release some of the opposition's steam so it doesn't explode. Now they get to look incompetent and not malicious, as they liked to do so that people don't hang them as they should. And they get to keep their "credibility" so that people don't question the bugs and the digital ID, and the social credit, and censorship, and the increasing corporatocracy, and the fake war. They are anything but incompetent, they knew about this the entire time, it is literally impossible for them not to have known, people were sending them enormous amounts of evidence and they just covered it all up and fired anyone that tried to talk about it.

Here is the current decade in one picture. https://social.076.moe/url/148296