It's pretty clear by now that most articles are written by bloggers who don't know what they're talking about and don't bother fact checking because they have to pump out another article for more clicks. I'd say this situation is the logical result of a system where income is determined by clicks, where articles that see more traffic is the desired result rather than good articles. At any rate, we should be expecting blatantly false claims about anything popular from most sites so you might as well get used to it.