The idea that NY Times is particularly anti-Meta seems a stretch. They - like most traditional media companies - are anti-tech in general. The fact they also collect data doesn't make their reporting untrue.

Personally I think a much more interesting rumor to make up would be that Yann Lecun (who famously had his reporting lines rearranged to go through Alexander Wang after Scale.ai acquihire) works at New York University.

New York University is in the same place as the New York Times.

There's a conspiracy for you. I made it up, but I mean it could be true I guess?

(Of course Lecun also publicly congratulated Wang on the launch of the model. But maybe that's a ruse to hide everything.. blah blah)