The quote that you included as part of [1] doesn't seem to be present in the article you linked.

Getting down to your question I am not sure the fault lies with those who are wondering about the difference between two opposing statements in the media. The piece I take issue is that as soon as the picture of her with the image of the black hole started to go viral the first thing many people did was check her contributions to a repo on github to quantify the code that she wrote for the project as a way to measure her which ultimately seems like something someone would do out of feelings of inadequacy.