Sometimes yes, sometimes no. You could be arrested tomorrow in a case of mistaken identity. Every time somebody searches for “Kalium”, the first result might be details about how you were arrested for some terrible crime and the follow-up a few day later about how charges were dropped would rank way lower because that never made the front page.

I think the problem is not so much the news article, but that it pops up front and centre when doing a trivial search. Also, considering the low levels of alphabetization, most people won't even bother reading the article, just the (often clickbait) snippet. I'm not blaming the newspaper, I'm saying search results should be held to higher standards.