You are correct - but reality does not form fit a news story or thread - so someone takes the rantings of one or more assholes and turns it into hate speach against women - gets pr, money etc publications collude to make a storyline generating mor hits etc happens every day -
it it is far easier to create news than to find it and report it - Reality is complicated and messy - but when someone creates a story/news they can make It clean and neat then package it for consumption in step by step easy to follow directions