Text to Speech raises its ugly head again.
Is very common among what passes for reporters nowadays.
Siri and Goog have speech assistants that help us text, and help reporters that can’t type or spell, quickly finish their articles.
And they post it online before any editors actually read it.
Add in a foreign news aggregation website and the mangling is complete.
Thanks! That would explain it!
I attributed it to some English-as-second-language off-shore website in Kerala or Botswana!