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They blew up a single tweet into an article about Apple's corporate strategy in relation to the FBI.

This sort of thing happens all the time from "news" blogs. You're just particularly keen to this one. The writer takes a smattering of fact, fits in into the existing narratives the news media is already telling themselves and bloviates until they have something to staple advertisement to.

What next? Are they going to dig through Apple employees' trash

Yes. News organizations that should know better pad their pages with exactly that. Constantly and forever. The trashcan is typically metaphorical, and the rank and file employees are boring.