Surprised this story hasn’t received more commentary…basically, the conspiracists were proven correct, it seems.
Cinemablend, Screenrant and other entertainment media aren't exactly pumping out super credible journalism on the whole. Most of what they report on is more akin to editorials in the form of lists, which really only amount to the biases of the reporter on the given subject. In fact their articles are most often schilling for movie studios, so when they actually write something of note, like this article, it gets dismissed or buried by the onslaught of useless information they normally pump out.
Besides, with the strikes and the general upheaval of world events, this seems pretty unimportant by comparison. Entertainment news has always been questionable to a degree given the veneer of Hollywood, but in the information age where everything is exposed, it's basically leapfrogging from one controversy to the next.