Anyone following the Climate Crisis logic closely are profiting by making steps toward shared goals and foreseeing eventualities. So 'They' could be just about anyone.
We are heading toward an eventual global socialist system under the banner of climate crisis. Nothing controls population numbers like crisis, science, and socialism.
(fact)
Over $50B tax payer dollars just to roll out the beta vaccine.
(speculation)
Indefinite updates are coming because it keeps you poor and others rich. There can be no ladder out of poverty like there was with capitalism in their new world they want to build.
The secret is that it only takes one person to build a website/business.
Everyone working at big tech should create their own thing and create competition.