Although I know that Bitcoin price can be influenced by recorgnised persons like the trump who made statement of making Bitcoin a strategic reserved asset and Bitcoin boom. Or Elon musk may influence the price of Bitcoin if he decides to make an open speach to buy Bitcoin, but that is not enough reason to say it is manipulated. Because with time the trend will die and majority who bought Bitcoin because of such statement will panic and sell.
I call all these actions manipulation and they are manipulating the market with their influence and popularity, they don't even need to spend a huge amount of money to do it.
Or for example, the news about ETF approval, CoinTelegraph posted fake news and made bitcoin skyrocket but then they deleted the news and announced that it was just a mistake. Or SEC X account posted about their approval of the ETF but just half an hour later they announced that their account was hacked. Bitcoin was extremely volatile at the time and all of that was blatant manipulation. Don't you consider that manipulation? If you don't agree that these things are manipulation, no amount of evidence will convince you.
By the way, in your opinion, are centralized altcoins like Sol, ETH, BNB, AVAX...manipulated? If so, can you provide me with specific evidence to prove they are manipulated?
https://cointelegraph.com/news/clarification-sharing-false-spot-bitcoin-etf-news
Or: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-etf-approved-sec-twitter-hack-false-informa