Are you suggesting Boeing had a hand in drafting/placement of this article? Having worked in
PR myself, I know it's not out of the realm of possibilities, but is there really anything tangible here to indicate this?
No I don't. But having seen a lot of -what looked to me like campaigns of heavy handed spin doctoring- in several social media I would consider it as somebody's targeted content whoever it was. Maybe some
PR agency gone berserk or similar? There were repeated narratives like
MCAS is not an anti stall system
US Pilots would not have crashed
Those pilots should just have used the trim runaway routine
Why did they not just switch off two buttons
pure coincidence?
Whenever something goes wrong be open about it. That is the most credible approach to change. Blaming pilots and customers only works against this.