Most of that stuff in "the media" - meaning, primarily, the Daily Mail, the paper that at one time supported Hitler - is skewed and distorted, and intentionally so. Headlines like that get people curious and sell papers.

Over the years any number of these scare campaigns aboutr "political correctness gone mad" or stuff like European Union bans on the wrong shped bananas have turned out to be rubbish. But they live on as endlessly recycled urban myths.