It is unreality that altcoins are not tied to the price of BTC, let us assume if one day the price of altcoins have nothing to do with BTC, it may be the end of BTC and the end of the crypto market.
When bad news comes out, it's always causing panic, and people sell one by one natually and i think most of them are newbie.
It never comes for sure. The Altcoins movement is somewhat the response to Bitcoin's trend, it is unlikely to see that altcoins will have their own agenda and run in the other way but it goes along with the same direction.
Well, I do respect that news either fake or not, whether we like it or not, it has a huge market influence and this could never be changed.
If these people got affected and sell their coins? That is their choice, we don't need to stop otherwise, you will be the one to blame. Think that they are doing the things that they feel was right. If they were right or wrong, that is their problem, not ours.