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Maybe someone who remembers reading this story at the time and remembers how absolutely absurd it was? And maybe thought people (like myself) might be interested to read it? The person who tweeted this is Canadian and of the right age to have read it at the time.

I think you're imagining conspiracies here. It's an interesting and kind of funny historical artifact, that's all. And what definition of "slander" are you working with here? Nothing posted is untrue.