There was a link in the article that said:
"That's eleven online, unsecured personal loan providers. The list does not include some others, like SoFi and Lightstream. Try it yourself here."
So,I did. Per the article I left the amount requested at $10,000 and FICO at 700-749 but there are a couple of other parameter choices to be made). These were Term and Purpose (Save on Credit Card Debt, Compare New Personal Loans, and Refinance An Existing Loan). The default was Compare New Personal Loans so I chose that. I selected 36-47 months for Term.
Lending Club always appears at the top of the list ("Featured Personal Loan" i.e. Sponsored Ad). There were 6 companies offering loans with the selection criteria I provided:
Company est APR
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Marcus 10.99%
LC 11.15%
Freedom+ 11.26%
Avant 11.95%
Payoff 14.00%
OneMain 24.99%
I changed the FICO to 639 or less, 640-699, 700-749 and finally 750-850.
Guess what; none of the interest rates displayed above changed.
What gives? Then I noticed at the top right ("Not ...login name...?? then log in").
The last Credit Karma login on the computer I was using was my by my daughter and her login name was shown. I logged in and out of CK with my own credentials then retried the procedure above. Now my login name was displayed. Much different results as my FICO is a bit higher than my daughter's. So, if the author of the article happened to be a CK user then their own personal data was used to generate the list of offers.