If you’re a tabloid reporter, don’t bother with your own iPhone troubleshooting steps, and instead invent a global conspiracy that Apple is destroying society.

Maybe this is why Apple wants to move to solid-state buttons on the iPhone, instead of the current mechanical ones. Because they can get stuck, apparently, and this is an actual thing, with an Apple support document and everything.
However, according to the Daily Mail — a tabloid known for hyperbole — there’s more to this.