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You can be that factor! Short sell the stock, and use the money to invest in a more-accurately valued business.

Most company's stock would fall pretty hard if all the holders decided to sell at the same time.

So although Google, say, technically has a huge float on a percentage basis, because none of the big three holders (Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin) are selling any significant amount of their shares, the practical float is much lower.

Tons of people and bots are saying insane things all the time. It is your choice to pay attention to insane things, or to ignore them and pay attention to the (presumably reputable) numbers.

The liquidity problem affects all the stocks, some more than others