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Intent matters.

A doctor prescribing you drug X because they think it's the best treatment for you is different than a doctor prescribing drug X because they get a kickback for doing so or have a lot of stock in the company.

A car crash because a driver made an honest mistake is different from a road raging driver intentionally ramming another car.

The difference between first degree murder, 2nd degree, manslaughter etc mostly comes down to intent and planning.

A person writing about a stock for Bloomberg because Bloomberg pays their salary to do stock analysis is different from a person buying call options and then pumping the stock so they can profit from the buying behavior of the people they manipulated.

And of course, all of these are full of subjective assessments. Most people looking at the "meme stocks" and corresponding subreddits, discords, tweets etc are going to come to the conclusion that there is intentional manipulation happening. But maybe somebody with autism or who speaks English as as second language or comes from a very different cultural context wouldn't be able to differentiate, and would come to a different subjective understanding.