So FF wanted to include a neutral 3/1 agenda in the new core set, which is probably a reasonable goal given that Core Set 1.0 HB was forced to have 1 more agenda point than it needed, which was poor game design. In general having an extra 1 pointer just gives new players more flexibility, which is probably the point.

There were 4 agendas they could have chosen from, assuming they didn't want to design a new card: Veterans Program, Profiteering, Chronos Project and False Lead (original page with reviews).

Veterans Program is too niche, and 2.0 includes Elizabeth Mills anyway.

Profiteering I would have preferred to False Lead. I think new corp players would have liked to have the credits trading that for essentially giving the runner 3 credits every turn thereafter. Until Lizzy comes along anyway. Certainly it's not overpowered, but FF decided False Lead was preferable.

Chronos Project would have been my pick for sure, but was probably excluded due to FF considering it OP going forward. I suspect they want the runner's heap to be more involved in the game and don't want the corp to have a blanket way of removing it from the game. Shame though, I'll miss it.

So that leaves us with False Lead. The card that won out. The original page gives a list of possible uses. In core set the best use would be in HB to stop the runner from clicking through to score even more points, but I still think that's a niche case for 3/1.

Beyond core set there are better 3/1 agendas for this to be in any way relevant. I guess FF though this was the only option for this slot in the set, and they are probably right, but for players new and old it's mostly irrelevant. For new players, only include it if you need the 1 point to make the minimal agenda points for a valid deck, and buy a datapack with better agendas as soon as you can.

Assuming you've already got a bunch of bioroid ice in your deck, the only downside to this card is that it doesn't do anything on it's own. This is really only a problem early game. You can think of this similarly to positional ice, except it's temporal ice - other ice needs to be rezzed first.

It's 2 stronger than Viktor 1.0 for the same price. If you are one of the few people still using that card, swap them for this now.

Dirty Laundry is a card I really wanted to like, especially in combination with Comet but it falls down in several respects.

1. You need to be certain your run will succeed or you are just wasting credits. The likelihood you'll have this card in a window where you can use it turns out to be pretty small.
2. If you are waiting until you've got 2 credits more than you need to make run, you are probably not running early enough.
3. There are other, more flexible economy options that will push this out of your deck.

Most of the time, this card sits in your hand waiting until a time when you can both be sure of a successful run and have 2 credits more than you would otherwise need to make that run. For me that has happened once out of about 5 games.