I think what is leading to such news is the long awaited altcoin season since Bitcoin has gone comfortably in 6 digits. Altcoin hodlers also want to come to the party, I can imagine them checking up on their wallet often times to see if there is such radical price increase.

A propaganda is going on to move the altcoin market because just very few altcoins have had such increase like the top coins ,TRX, Sol, ETH, BNB. But the real push is what is waited for, maybe someone is likely trying to inspire that through manipulating the media and speculative market.