Could this be a false flag to make it look as if BTC is a currency only to be used by criminals?
i think if this was 2 years ago then you were right. but at this point in time we are way past that because to put simply there are a lot more good news about bitcoin than there are bad ones.
and with all of these good ones i doubt the number of people who think bitcoin is bad (a currency only to be used by criminals) are anything more than a handful.