I think the first option is valid. It's basically the same with their Tether nonsense articles. Nothing new was there to add, but they still found it necessary to rehash old information, but then with slightly different wording.

These news sites are almost like how signature campaigns back in the days were allowing people to shit post in order to get paid. The more articles these site release, the more income they get.

In times where there isn't anything new or exciting, they'll have to be creative in order to still release content, and rehashing old articles is something they revert to quite often, especially in the last 12 or so months.