I'll repeat my point so maybe you can focus on that than the straw man.

It's not hard to find scandals, that's the whole point of having institutions meant to watchdog corporations and governments.

But of course governments/corporation will try and cover it up or deregulate said institutions, but this doesn't make an obvious adversary (Russia) a helping hand in holding the corporations /governments accountable because it's not meant to, it's meant to create cynicism and a feeling of hopelessness.

So no publishing truth is never bad, the issue is how you do it.