He linked to a web site that is a bit confusing to me. Their About Us page says they make fun of the mass media through satire. That would put them in the same class as The Onion. But that page is a decade old, and they claim to be based in China - which may or may not be an attempt at satire.
He’s either been caught up in a very badly done satire site thinking he is actually posting something funny (or not realizing it’s satire), or caught up in a fake news site, or is simply trolling people. Hard to tell which.
–Peter