as a rule whenever you hear some country has banned bitcoin your first assumption should  be that the news is false. and it is true in 99% of the cases. the problem is the news sites that we have do not care about honest journalism. I don't think journalism exists among them anymore, they are all money machines that are trying to make the most out of this ecosystem. so what they do is that they continue publishing the most controversial stories to get the most visitors and earn the most from their banner ads and the traffic.
they don't care about the source or even legitimacy of the news. that is why we call them click baits