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It looks like the author made the opposite claim three years ago:

http://math.ahu.edu.cn/_upload/article/files/85/03/f191ded54...

I'm not going to blame anyone because I make this all the time. Sometimes the poof that something is true or false are very similar. In this case the difference is if some value is 1/2 or 3/4. Anyway, my coworkers find the error before we publish it.

Someone reviewed that specific paper here [1].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220128195023/https://motls.blo...

This was a review of the author's earlier paper of 2018, in which they were actually claiming a proof of the RH.

On their arXiv page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12546, the author states that "though all my previous proposed (dis)proofs were flawed, i think the flaws pointed me towards the right direction..."

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