The starkest signal of the MAGAfication of Silicon Valley isn't this fairly par-for-the-course spyware tech, but their public response.
A short couple of years ago they would have downplayed the whole thing and peppered a few apologies in, but these days the standard response is attack, attack, attack. Call the journalist a liar, call the journal failing, no need for evidence on either, just as long as you keep attacking.
Trump has pulled strings many times to help individual supporters out, so maybe she's not as stupid as people here are saying.