He could always covertly edit their comments if he's upset that people don't have the right opinions. It wouldn't be the first time.

He seems to be attempting to use a technique known as DARVO ("deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender") to smear the Apollo dev. This happens sometimes when people who know they've done something wrong are held accountable.

Broadly speaking, if you don’t want the public to know you’re a liar, simply don’t lie. Otherwise, you have no one else to blame but yourself when the public is shown the person you are.

One could argue Huffman’s actions in this regard have been deeply unprofessional, as well as operating blatantly from a place of bad faith. Savvy negotiation is distinct from lying and pleading extortion.

I have to wonder if this is just the same cross-society trend of employees seemingly checking out and doing the bare minimum, manifesting in the C-suite. One would think top management should be doing the work of coming up with several different monetization strategies, analyzing what different types of backlash they each might cause, how to market them, simulating revenue given various levels of attrition, etc. Instead it's like they (he?) have chosen a single course of action and are just going to force it through at all costs, and they're in charge so why isn't everyone just doing what they say damnit.