Is it always necessary to take credit? Is it necessary to show a junior the wrath to provoke or encourage the best?

In Kerala, India the floods have wrecked havoc and people are crammed in makeshift shelters ignorant of whether they will live to see their homes again. Some don't even have basic necessities in these shelters. It is a national crisis. In the midst of it all, a professional took to social media claiming that the affected were only from upper and middle class societies. Media investigated and found the opposite to be true. However, by then social media had praised the reporting professional for fake news. Did this professional need to spread fake news and garner credit for inconsistent information?

Many moons ago, a junior officer in the US Army was busy doing his job and earning credit properly. A new senior experienced this junior winning the respect of all alike, which didn't sit too well with that new superior. The superior officer threatened his understudy with his wrath, behind closed doors, but those threats proved useless in the face of respect. The superior officer then used the MHE to put the junior in disrepute, but this failed too. Then, the new senior spread fake news against his understudy and this time it worked to ruin the junior and bring that officer into disrepute. Once in disrepute, the superior officer revisited the MHE and attempted again to further damage the junior officer, but the attempt was unsuccessful again. A few months later, spreading fake news, the superior officer was successful in using the EMHE to illegally imprison his junior. Has the senior officer won or; has the Army been weakened or; the fall of one junior by the wrath of a superior is of no consequence in the Army?

I know this is life, but does life call for such unjust behavior in society?