Shadowrun may work as its own alternate timeline that starts at least as far back as 2012, but if someone were to try to align what we know in late 2024 with the setting, getting the incriminating "paydata" and sending it to some corpo media (or some rich failson narcissist pocaster) wouldn't do much... and even if somehow the desire was there to get out what Damien Knight was up to (which was probably not as bad as 
at least in the books as written), all an Ares Macrotechnology corporate citizen would have to do is say "FAKE NEWS!" and keep on keeping on, going bazinga for the latest New Exciting Retail Product like always.
From a gaming perspective, it might be fair to give the writers some slack because if they were really honest with the conclusions of the world they had designed, the only realistic win-state would have been a successful uprising
The game had those too; the Second Great Ghost Dance was largely successful and a lot of First Nations got their land back.