Have you been using the new 'Yoda' translator app from Google
Regarding monetisation, he reported this on Twitter. Blog / News sites picked up on it from there. None of these would be paying to report on this (they rarely even post source and when they do they do not pay you as the source, I speak from first hand experience) so I am confused as to where and how you think the user would be monetising from this. There is no YouTube video or channel from the user, and Twitter certainly don't pay for popular tweets.
Well more red flags in that story than anything else. How any objective thinking person can't see that is beyond me. Think about it. A consumer says they have a bad product, the manufacturer wants to make it right. The consumer doesn't want that, instead they just want to "publicize" it. Really? Jeez.
When the STATE RUN news agency is on the same narrative, Red Flags go up immediately.