I'd argue the article is a low value drive-by click-bait post - and worse than that, in fact may be malicious in nature to obscure and confuse the truth - or it

I'd argue the article is a low value drive-by click-bait post - and worse than that, in fact may be malicious in nature to obscure and confuse the truth - or it's just doing so as a form of harmful gossip. If you actually care then perhaps I'll walk through with you, and we first can parse and list out what is "established fact" that they mention (and how established it actually is) vs. hearsay (which has practically no value).