That was the time where BTC dump and it has a hard time to recover now, Binance made a great move of not keeping silent, their investors money is always at stake here so they need to act and what they did is commendable.
fake news already exist before ever since binance was still new on the crypto industry and mostly fake news spread on social media sites like facebook but i dont think that they can be shut down so easily because if they did then why do you think there are still fake news circulating on the web ? they can just create a new a site and start all over again . best way to do is just ignore those news and continue doing our business like a pro . sooner or later they will just stop if they will get tired of posting fake news .