That was poorly phrased... In my mind, I meant it in a "sadly it's too often that the human making the mistake gets blamed, rather than the systems that didn't have appropriate safeguards to make said mistake non-trivial"
They threw an open-source contributor under the bus for rejecting a pull request that changed a code comment. Knee-jerk responses are definitely part of their modus operandi.
There has been no evidence of them doing this at all.. I don't know why people keep saying it.