Call me paranoid but I think The Wall Street Journal is working with the Chinese fake news industry because many of their investment-advertisers are losing customers who WERE shifting over to crypto.
Now China can write anything and when The Wall Street Journal quotes them - they're just reporting the news and not writing it themselves.
This way the Wall Street Journal isn't busted for market-manipulation... Hell - they're just saying what China said.
The crypto-market crashes, the investors go back to Wall Street, the advertisers are happy and The Wall Street Journal keeps their advertisers.