Dozens out of 50,000 doesn't sound like anything newsworthy.
The news has become almost completely agenda driven, monomaniacally so in some cases so what is "newsworthy" is sadly no longer what you'd think.
From their viewpoint, magic internet money conference driven by geeks, mixed with covid19 makes a really great story.
Connect the good things with bad things to make them appear bad.
A very old recipe...