It is quite true that there are people that manipulate the price, most of them have a large amount of money and they manipulate the price for them to profit. We should be very patient and wait until the price goes up.
We'll it is normal to encounter this kind of people who dont have any faith that bitcoin will recover. They are to afraid to lose of all their money so in order to stop about worrying and do panic selling. They spread false ideas/facts so that they can have colleagues in doing panic selling.