The amount makes it sound like they just want to look like they did something without actually doing something

~1 mln per 10 days, ~100 mln per year? Thats not so much, but its only Norway.

first thought I had was "they made it free to collect data since they don't own github or similar"

This. It's not fair to apply this rule that kinda says "state affiliated/funded = propaganda" to everyone except for USA media, that's some USA exceptionalism.

always failed to see how normalizing clickbaits is for the greater good. more like for better income, which I could understand

Less probable but it's quite trivial to make a browser extension or something of the sort for cheating (feeding moves to engine and showing suggestions)

Drama aside, no-one seriously thinks Hans can measure up to Magnus. The outcome of that match heavily favors Magnus, even players like Nepo, Caruana, Firouzja are underdogs.

It's very clear the OP implicit assumption is that the report is verified to be true.

Do you know that since about two days ago Russian propaganda has been pushing exactly this scenario? See https://youtu.be/EoyNGHkjeyM for details.

any idea why they reimplemented react? to reduce bundle size?

You're just being racist, western Europe is very safe

I thought crypto was invented to prevent this kind of stuff ?