Carl has a long history of twisting truth and sources.
For example https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/dec/09/wikipedia...
Or the discussion page of the wikipedia page about him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Carl_Hewitt
Constantly using "Prof" to prefix his name speaks for itself too.
(In other words, it's (2), but that's not a recent development.)