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Using social media platforms to invest has become so popular that it can have a big impact on markets.
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The platform’s own userbase could get into loggerheads with the company – particularly a certain investor community by the name of WallStreetBets.
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Donald Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, went public on Tuesday March 26. Shares in parent company Trump Media & Technology Group surged 15% after its first day of trading on the Nasdaq…
Pete Davidson and Paul Dano in Dumb Money (2023) – the true story of real people using online investment tips to get rich.
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Dumb Money depicts the real-life GameStop short squeeze that fuelled the ‘meme stock’ trend.
Meme stocks are investment assets that receive a lot of attention on social media.
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Meme stock investing might seem like a fun game, but the risks are real.
Homes fit for zeroes (and ones).
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Where some see a bubble waiting to burst, others see a reinvention of the way we handle ownership of assets.
The degenerates strike again.
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Shares in the gaming chain and other stocks like AMC and BlackBerry are soaring once again.
To better police misinformation, social media companies can curb their appetites for constant engagement.
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Misinformation isn’t an inevitable product of social media. Proven techniques can help tech companies clean up their acts.
Bumble’s IPO raised $2.15 billion for the women-go-first dating app.
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A finance scholar explains what an IPO is, how it works and a new way companies are going public that’s winning the hearts of WallStreetBets Redditors.
State Farm’s ‘Drake’ ad was one of the Twitter winners of the Super Bowl.
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Advertisers forked over $5.5 million for a mere 30 seconds of air time during the Super Bowl. Here’s Twitter’s verdict on which brands got social media bang for their bucks.
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Deplatformed groups can all too easily flock to alternative platforms to coordinate.
GameStop logo is seen at one of their stores in Athens, Ohio.
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It’s up to the courts to draw a line between free speech and illegal market manipulation. And the Supreme Court has never ruled on this specific question.
Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in 1955.
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Market prices are supposed to reflect a company’s fundamental value. When they no longer do, bad things can happen.
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WallStreetBets is now reshaping financial markets: Non-professional market participants, or retail investors, are doing the work traditionally performed by financial advisers and analysts.
We’re not going away.
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Now that Gen Z has got a taste for financial trading, the whole game has changed.
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Despite having no real basis as a financial asset, cryptocurrency Dogecoin recently reached a market cap of more than A$12 billion.
‘Watching the tape or watching the wheel - what is the difference morally?’, illustration by Will Crawford c.1912.
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The gleeful manipulation of GameStop’s share price is not the first time amateur investors have created a legitimacy crisis on Wall Street.
A queue outside Coles in the Perth suburb of Maylands, one of the potential COVID exposure sites, on Sunday, January 31, 2021.
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Another local lockdown, another outbreak of shoppers stockpiling. Fortunately supply chains are now prepared.
Let the games continue.
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There was outrage after Robinhood and other trading apps temporarily suspended buying of the stocks being targeted by the Reddit traders.
Wall Street under attack.
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The question is if and how the regulators can respond.