It wouldn't be the first time X was described as Y in The Media, now would it. There are reasons things get 'described in the media' the way they do and we all know the media is neither some benign, impartial info dump, nor a popular movement heroically telling truth to power.
Meanwhile if you read the page posted you can see that failing to comply with the licence, in this context, has a load of conditions attached that make it (to my view) barely less onerous than keeping to the terms of the license. And for what it's worth, without brexit but with covid, this would probably still happen.