I'm translating the 'Spectre (security vulnerability)' Wikipedia article to my mother tongue, and it contains a sentence like below;
It was reported that Intel shared news of the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities with Chinese technology companies, before notifying the U.S. government of the flaws.
I can comprehend what it's supposed to convey (Intel failing to notify the bug before anybody else, especially China), but what I'm confused here is whether this is rumor or a fact.
Surely I can find out on my own by reading the cited article, but I just want to know something that native speakers automatically assume from this idiom.