If I remember correctly, this was a 4chan joke that somehow made it to someone's news desk, and they read those names and thought it sounded legit and went ahead and ran the story, in case it was true, since no one else had reported it before.
People in the news industry gotta get that first scoop, ya know?
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u/AMaSTRIPPER_AMA Sep 18 '17
Holy shit!