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.
Personally I love looking back at the threads and seeing commenters jump through every loophole available to justify a chip that physically could not possibly exist (or if it did exist then China is secretly 250 years ahead of the world in terms of chip manufacturing). Just one example of the gymnastics.