"they" usually manipulate in such ways that option traders go broke.
except for short term insider trading cases like the recent blackstone-hilton deal where "they" can't do anything about it except for crying foul and then SEC initiates some worthless investigations.
...and who seems to know more? A bunch of nameless faceless guys behind home computers using handles on an unreputable trading website or Bloomberg? Looks like futures in the red at this point...