‘allowing people only to sell is the definition of market manipulation.’ Others
encouraged other investors to hold their positions, reasoning that Robinhood and other brokers sought to incentivize users to sell their stocks to bring GameStop and other surging stock prices down.
Also joining the fray was famed
Barstools founder,
David Portnoy who blasted Robinhood, accusing the company of siding with the Wall Street establishment over ordinary people who are just trying to get rich.
‘And it turns out
@RobinhoodApp is the biggest frauds of them all. “Democratizing finance for all” except when we manipulate the market cause too many ordinary people are getting rich.’