Robinhood- which has tens of millions of active users- completely restricted people from buying GameStop, AMC, and a host of others.
They allowed people to sell the stock- and actually changed the sell button from red to green - after removing the green buy button in the app.
Tells you all you need to know really. If you forbid people from buying a stock and only allow them to sell it- what’s gonna happen- you’re going to push the price down. If that’s not deliberate and blatant market manipulation what is?
Edit: more than half of all Robinhood users- which is MILLIONS of people- own GameStop stock. They are unable to freely trade it. But hey- they can sell it in their Robinhood app. EL OH EL.