It just what "news" or "content" is these days--repeating what others said on twitter. Their conundrum is do they post what little might be said sooner to be the first or wait a little for shit to really kick off. I will admit that I went to see if there was an archive of this story (there is) before posting (and I looked at it).
> Best thing you can do in my opinion is adblock, adblock, adblock.
I already do. No whitelisting, no exceptions, and I keep an eye out for sponsored posts and native advertising.
But there's more: as a free bonus, without qualms they tell you how hilarious and foolish "the Internet responds" (yeah right) to trivial stuff like the BBC being down. And these people have the audacity to call themselves journalists.
They should be ashamed of themselves and my suggestion is: don't read this stuff when even the title is this obviously clickbaity. They have been spoiled enough, the quality is abhorrent. Best thing you can do in my opinion is adblock, adblock, adblock.