It's been the propaganda tactic for at least decades now to deliberately incorrectly repeat accusations from the left ad-nauseum, so as to make them look ridiculous and leave people tired of hearing about it.

Run a bunch of stories like this, then cue the next three decades of alt-right grifters complaining about woke "accusing everyone of doing nazi salutes" (I mean, moreso). Now when public figures do more nazi salutes, people will gloss over it as an everyday story.