I don’t see what’s the problem. It’s a proposal of a sponsorship with payment in nature (the expensive phones) instead of money. If the influencer disagrees, there’s no problem and they can buy the phones by themselves, Google is not forced by law to send free phones to influencers.

I don’t think that all those influencers are actually playing raid shadow legends or eating factor or using betterhelp.

Google is giving free review samples to real reviewers

Influencer is a fancy word for salesman. Instead of going door to door like grandpa did in the old days, they stream directly to your device.

This was just incredibly dumb. Now any positive news about their new phone is going to be seen as planted.