You would generally hope that the popular coverage of the paper would
(1) avoid making statements that are obviously nonsense, such as "And associated to the number 55 (5 × 11) would be all multiples of 55 whose smallest prime factor is 11"; and
(2) not require reading the paper itself in order to interpret the popular coverage.
If you're going to read the paper, why would you read someone else's paper-inspired gibberish? What value does that add?
Did you read the paper?