Originally Posted by
the810
But surely the production version would make those new data visible, rather than have them hidden in the code? Not to mention that they would fix the mistake quickly.
Sure they could've told a random blogger about it and in my presumed scenario they did. But that blogger needs to have some pseudo source for their information - which is where the nonsensical hidden data in the code come in
If it was visible they'd likely have caught it before publishing.
I just think jumping straight to outlandish conspiracy theories is a reach when it is so easily explained by incompetence.