I think the blog post, twitter post, facebook post, all out push to get this "news" out leans towards the firing being fake. This isn't the sort of thing you'd

I think the blog post, twitter post, facebook post, all out push to get this "news" out leans towards the firing being fake. This isn't the sort of thing you'd really want to spam over all your official channels. The people who have a horse in this race are aware of the issue and will know what the outcome is and the rest of their customers don't care.