Because the author did not really study the so called social credit system, instead they just quote everything from wikipedia without double checking the facts.
I am a fan of the Mayday(Air Crash Investigation) tv series, you can always find eyewitnesses report smoke and fire in any air cash despite the real cause.
There is a system called "The" Social Credit System"(社会信用体系). But the word 'social' is not about social network, it is about socialism. Lots of PRC's departments and laws are named with social but none of the have anything to do with the social network.
I think it should be translated as 'The National Credit System'
NYTimes display the power output as a bubble chart on PC and bar chart on mobile.
I was shocked how misleading the bubble chart could be, The biggest dam is 3x larger than the smallest, but the it looks like only 1.5x larger on the bubble chart.
Same in China. Though I do not believe this is something "already happening". Female infanticide is nothing new in China and India, it started centuries ago, and was worse in old times.