On January 28 2021 the popular stock trading app Robinhood controversially halted trading of two viral tickers ($GME and $AMC) following the improbable rally of $GME, leading to whispers that Robinhood was owned by Citadel — a capital firm purportedly adversely affected by the whole mishegas. There is, of course, a lot to unpack in …
As retail investors piled into $GME (GameStop) stock, a tweet attributed to Elon Musk about the ticker reaching $1,000 circulated on r/WallStreetBets and StockTwits.
The brazen and blatant lies of gaslighting campaigns are difficult to fight with fact-checking alone, but they can be defeated through a multidisciplinary approach.
Partisan websites were quick to report that Twitter’s stock value plummeted after finally deplatforming the outgoing United States president — but the claim was missing a lot of context.
At least one impersonator has been kicked off the subscriber-based platform.
The platform “permanently suspended” the outgoing president two days after his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol.
The movie’s high-flying original climax continues to be rediscovered online.
Yet another piece of election-related disinformation is circulating, this one centered on Executive Order 13848 — specifically, claims that it would keep Donald Trump in the White House despite his decisive loss to Joe Biden.
Claims that Seattle, Washington intended to “absolve” defendants under a “poverty defense” led to an international outcry.
As election conspiracy theories strayed far afield, a wild and baseless rumor that U.S. Army Special Forces (“the Kraken”) raided a “CIA server farm” in Frankfurt, Germany spread from social media corners into the national discourse.
