Well if you look at the US company stocks since the story (not the chinese ones) you'll see none of them had a negative day.
So either they miss-planed their "stock market" manipulation or it was not their intention...
That's flat out false. AAPL was at an all time high when this story came out and then proceeded to drop 11 pts over the next 2 days. Not evening mentioning that SuperMicro's value has halved.
Stock market manipulation doesn't mean you have to manipulate the entire $20 trillion dollar US stock market, it just means you tried to manipulate the price of a specific stock. Super Micro's stock dropped 40% based on the story. Hypothetically if someone shorted the stock and then pushed to get a story published that they knew had no basis in evidence, they would have profited handsomely and that would have been stock market manipulation.
If it was their intent and they lost money, would be funny if they went to jail too.