When there's an event going on, perhaps there could be a section on the event post for handwaved "investigations." For example, a comment for each faction where people can post things like, "Godot hits up Sutoku HQ and bribes the tengu at the front desk with a cup of coffee before asking about how that big string cheese job is going." Mod NPC replies with "he says it's going well, but they keep having problems with the demon rats trying to steal all the cheese." Quick reply, info provided, my character has something that they can share with others ICly. Or..

For what it's worth, those kinds of threads have happened in main events before (I'm on mobile, but if you check out the August Underground Opening log or the Beach/Blood Rain event, you'll see specific comment threads relating to characters taking actions and the mods offering the NPC responses). It just didn't seem to happen here, I guess because it was considered a "mini" event.