Online mobs are likely to remain a dangerous reality
Online mobs are likely to remain a dangerous reality By The Washington Post By Drew Harwell When the stock market opened one morning last month, Jake was working a job he hated inside a cavernous Amazon fulfillment center, trying desperately to spend some of the $1,452.45 in his checking account on shares of a failing chain of video game stores. At home alone in Des Moines, he had immersed himself in the euphoria of WallStreetBets, the raucous Reddit forum where followers were cheering one another toward a leap of faith: A mass buy of GameStop stock, they thought, would decimate hedge funds ...
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