>>56938486working damage control around a hacker (criminal) who also failed in their task (leaking the documents they claim to have) is actually really easy.
You don't get the sheep to argue for or against you, you get them to argue with themselves.
The bigger question is whether Khu or Centro know how to orchestrate damage control at even 50% that of a political level. I don't follow/know either, so I don't know.