Also known as FUD, this is a popular term used to discredit negative reports or news about an asset as being unreasonable and/or entirely false and malicious.
Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt or FUD is a label used to describe negative sentiments, reports and news surrounding a cryptocurrency or digital asset.
Often the implication behind the use of this term is that the negative reports or news are either entirely false, or being spread to maliciously cause — as the name suggests — fear, uncertainty and doubt in the minds of market participants, thereby hurting the asset's market price.