You're missing the point. He was controlled very likely because he got in bed with some shady VC financiers (twitter got cia-front company money). And now people are being financed by him. And since he is likely still a fed, they are being financed by the feds. He wasn't co-oped and used immediately. But the devil always collects what is due. Jack learned the hard way, and now he is sucking others into the same trap.