They just want to shake some poor hands to accumulate handful of eth. This is just whales strategy. Weak hands will suffer while whales are on profit. FUD is everywhere, it's up to you how you manage to control your emotions when hearing such news like this. They are competitors.
You called this as a whale? are you joking about that? he was an economist from US and he was having a lot of journey as a banker. There is no doubt if he will always bash crypto caused by he is a centralized system maximalist that we called that as a bank right now. It's not always related to the whale.