I don't know if it is a human or a bot or script in this instance, but many news sites or aggregators are automated. And they just scrape or collect text from various sources, other news sites, universities, government pages, corporate press releases etc. and then re-word it just enough to be unique content.

Depending on the quality of the software, the results can be hilarious.

And the pressure the Internet has put on journalism as a whole also creates outcomes like this even when there is a human behind the keyboard. The need to be quick and first for big dramatic stories, or just to generate new content continually 24/7 trying to get page views and clicks for very thin advertising revenue.

Totally different than actual dead-tree newspapers. Where you had until the nightly printing deadline to get things right, revise them, and an editor looked it all over as well.

But if you REALLY want your mind blown..

Try looking up articles on various topics in the BBC Pidgin portal.

If you read English, you can generally get the gist of what's written. And the linguistic construction and phonetic spellings are fascinating.