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by zaroth 2500 days ago
If you hold the stock and make a knowingly false statement about the stock in an attempt to move the market, particularly without disclosing that you hold the shares, it may be securities fraud.

The line is very difficult to draw between constitutionally protected speech and securities fraud. [1]

[1] - https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ref...