The article stayed at the top of the feeds for less than an hour.
At first, it spread quickly. Entertainment pages reposted the headline. Finance accounts picked up the Silas-linked entities. A few legal commentators began threading the documents, marking the payment routes and asking why complaint-containment work had been funded outside MM Label's public structure.
For a short while, the story looked like it might break through the noise.
Silas did not let it breathe.
He stood in his office with the article open on one screen and a list of names on another. The legal intermediary had two phones on the table. The technician was already tracking mirrors, reposts, archive captures, and platform movement.
"Start with the publisher," Silas said.
