

In addition to the cowards reasoning it’s also because Paramount (parent company of CBS) and Skydance Media are trying to merge.
That deal is valued at ~8 billion dollars, so settling for a couple million in that context makes sense.
Additionally since it’s a merger it requires FCC approval and Trump appointed the FCC chairman and is known to meddle in things.
So these companies are trying to play nice with Trump so they can merge.
Basically paying $20 to make this go away is the cost of doing business. Corruption all the way.
I mean no need to spread misinformation. This information in easily verifiable.
Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, worked at McKinsey for ~2 years and then joined Google in 2004, eventually working his way into the position of CEO.
Pichai’s fuck ups are unlikely a result of McKinsey, at least not directly. That isn’t to say that McKinsey is completely off the hook. They work with plenty of “top” companies and I’m certain Google is one of them.