why should IOTA be any different than other altcoins that spread the same lie? for example ethereum lied about the same thing too. they said Microsoft is a partner where it was similar to IOTA only a participant and had no affiliation ever. they just observed the technology to probably use it to their own advantage since it is open source.
it is all about how you hype the altcoin, and all of them are using the same lying techniques to create fake hype to pump their project.