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The pile of shit itself: https://web.archive.org/web/20181009013621/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
Reddit reaction: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/duplicates/9lac9k/china_used_a_tiny_chip_in_a_hack_that_infiltrated/
(posted on reddit more than a hundred times, over 5000 comments spread out on every thread, back in 2018 this was a huge story... all bullshit)
Article detailing the aftermath: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/04/editorial-a-year-later-bloomberg-silently-stands-by-its-big-hack-icloud-spy-chip-story
It really is this transparent when we look back at it all.
The actual details of this were so fucking stupid. This imbecile journalist basically asked some guy "hey theoretically could you put an IC in passive component" to some guy, that journalist took the exact part the guy used as a hypothetical, claimed china made a super secret IC that looked like a passive with no proof, then accused some random Taiwanese-American's company as compromised (with some racebaiting too, "they got hacked because they speak chinese"). No super secret microchips were ever found but that company did go bankrupt iirc. But now they've done a 180° turn and Taiwan is supposed to be on the US's side (don't ask where all the TSMC engineers are moving tho).