Why not? Journos like him lie routinely about literally everything. Who's gonna hold him accountable if he does decide to say Null stayed silent? Sure, readers could google his name and the site to find this thread, but for one it's on this site that's already been established as an evil transphobic Nazi den of misinformation, and two 99% of people reading slop like that aren't going to possess the critical thinking capabilities or will to find out the truth for themselves. They'll just blindly accept what the news man says.