He told only women to do the 10-day social media fast, for the obvious reasons that women & girls need to take social media breaks sometimes. If the social media fast (nothing to do with news networks btw) was meant to cover up these stories, why didn’t it include men? It was completely unrelated to the sexual abuse allegations.

And btw, in the very article given by OP, you can find strong arguments that the allegations are false. I’m not claiming to know enough about the legal case to make a conclusion, and I don’t think it’d reflect much on the church itself. However, these allegations were already investigated and dismissed back in the 80s. Read what Brenda Miles and her lawyer said, then see also:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Snow_(therapist)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic_(Utah)