The title of that article is a false assumption. Just because someone says that two situations are similar, that does not mean that they are saying that all aspects of those situations are similar.
Okay, hopefully this is the last time I have to explain this. News article titles are meant to
exaggerate and
stretch the truth. That's how it
grabs readers' attention. This only becomes a problem if readers just look at the title of the story and read no further, because that's just being lazy. Can we please stop distracting from the main point with these petty nitpicks?