This is worrying because investors need good information and 2 leading crypto websites aren't delivering. I guess they don't have any journalists. They receive press releases, they send them to a guy in Asia (they probably found him on Fiverr?) to rewrite it somehow, and they publish it without understanding anything.

This is exactly what they did in the following 2 articles:

https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-traders-who-lost-big-in-poloniex-flash-crash-receive-bitcoin-refunds

https://cointelegraph.com/news/poloniex-will-reimburse-135-million-loss-from-clams-flash-crash

I'm a victim here. I've lost more than one BTC in this 1,800 BTC affair, which I explain in this topic.

Coindesk and Cointelegraph are both saying I will get my money back, but I won't, nor will anyone. It's 100% fake news, and Poloniex knows it very well. That's his plan.

What Poloniex has been announcing is that to all people who have had their money stolen, Poloniex offers all trading fees. That sounds like a nice gesture, except that trading fees for a maker is 0.15% at this exchange. As anyone can imagine, to get 1,800 BTC back from a 0.15% fee, that will take a lot of trading... And actually, no trading will happen. Because, as everybody affected, when I discovered that my coins were gone, I quickly withdrew what was left of it. Hey, when you see that your coins disappear, you don't leave them at an exchange you cannot trust!

So Poloniex won't have anything to pay, and that's what Coindesk and Cointelegraph should have they have said, if they had understood anything about the issue, or if they had any will to give good information to their readers.

Unfortunately, these two resources are teeming with fake news, so I try not to read them

It takes too much time to find out what's real and what's fake...
As I've said before, Cointelegraph is better, they published another article, so if you really have to, read just this one.

This is actually true no matter how we do believe that these news outlets are like that we cant really totally neglect them yet they are still being used and trusted when it comes to news source of this crypto market.It might have have issues on posting up fake ones but we cant deny the fact that they are somehow usable and a good place to look on when we do seek informations and some updates.As a reader we should really be keen on verifying everything that we do read up.

Why is this news site publishing fake news? For example, I searched for information about "Cointelegraph" and found a review and information that it is one of the leading independent media resources for cryptocurrency news.
So what's the point of such an independent giant posting fake news?

I do not trust those news channels fully. I think they only make news about they got information from their source. Maybe they won't justify that news before publishing it. It's very common on the news channel. But this kind of unexpected news can cause panic to the markets and that can lead into price dump of cryptocurrency. And some people also don't want to justify that news they just act as they heard.

This is not the first time I've met people who lose money due to crypto media publications. It annoys me especially when FUD is published, and I also hate bitcoin predictions. Many people believe this without even suspecting that this is a lie or unverified information.