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The chaos of WallStreetBets and the QAnon-fueled storming of the U.S. Capitol showcased the reality-shaping power of Internet communities. Who’s supposed to stop them when they go too far?

SHARE The phenomenon of climate change and its causes are broadly agreed upon by scientists. The same, however, cannot be said for the public. The sheer volume of dissenting voices and polarised opinion on the internet caused one post­doctoral researcher at NYU Abu Dhabi, Thomas Marlow, to investigate one of the suspected culprits – automated bots. His findings, published last month, are striking: bots were responsible for 25 per cent of all Twitter posts on the topic over a two-month peri...

Commentary: Social media and the mob factor Special to The Enterprise Social media has an unimagined, unequaled, uncontrollable, and unpredictable ability to mobilize groups of people for antisocial action; to take a sliver of society and turn it into a mob. Last month this new force in society was on display, from mobilizing anti-vaxxers in Los Angeles to the U.S. Capitol riot, resulting in five deaths, to the run-up of a weak stock, GameStop, by 1,800 percent. These events, coupled with some...

It’s an irresistible tale: Young investors linked by social media beat Wall Street pros at their own game. Hedge funds, betting on a retail chain called GameStop to plunge in price, instead see a barrage of small investors snap up shares and send the stock soaring, eventually forcing the funds to lose billions. The reality is more mundane: Big hedge funds also helped propel the stock upward and the small investors’ moves, while noble-sounding, probably were illegal. Why We Wrote This Everyo...

Creates 3D-printable elevation maps of Earths surface. I originally made it because I couldnt find a tool to make a particular 3D model I wanted, and then decided to open source it. However, to use the code you need to download ~80 GB of elevation data, which I thought would be a stumbling block for a lot of other hobbyists, so I put together a little web interface and hosted it myself. It sometimes breaks even over a month from the occasional donation, and I think its gotten me at least one jo...

A real life Robinhood story (one that might not end well) Some DIY day-traders are making money at the hands of the rich. Should you be worried? By Larry Edelman Globe Columnist,Updated January 28, 2021, 8:14 p.m. Email to a Friend A protester held a sign outside of Robinhood’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Thursday after the stock-trading app said it would limit trades of GameStop.IAN C. BATES/NYT It’s fitting that the online trading app with the name of Robinhood is playing...

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A former Obama adviser who worked at Facebook says the company and Twitter are responsible for the attack on the Capitol Wednesday.

A former Obama adviser who worked at Facebook says the company and Twitter are responsible for the attack on the Capitol Wednesday.

Extra Crunch roundup: ‘Nightmare’ security breach, Poshmark’s IPO, crypto boom, more The rest of the world may be slowing down as we prepare for Christmas and the new year, but we are not taking our foot off the gas. Alex Wilhelm keeps a close watch on the public markets in his column The Exchange, but this week, he branched out to look at some of the metrics underpinning soaring cryptocurrency prices and turned his gaze on StockX, the consumer reseller marketplace that just raised $275 m...