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Naive. How about short sellers spreading fake news (or blowing news out of proportion) to suppress the price of your stock?

• Mikeb85 8y ago
  Short sellers keep prices in check and offer a healthy degree of scepticism. Also, short squeezes are plenty of fun when you're on the long side.
• happytoexplain 8y ago
  Your proposition might have legs, but I don't think the parent post was malicious enough to deserve prefacing your reply with such a curt criticism.
• ceejayoz 8y ago
  It seems a bit silly to bash shorts for "spreading fake news" in defense of a CEO that settled with the SEC for demonstrably spreading fake news to combat shorts he perceives as persecuting his company.
  • hnbroseph 8y ago
    two wrongs don't make a right, or so the saying goes
    • ceejayoz 8y ago
      I haven't seen much evidence the shorts have committed a wrong.
    • FireBeyond 8y ago
      Where's the -evidence-, as opposed to theories, that short sellers are actively and illegally manipulating the stock price with demonstrably false statements? False statements like "I've secured funding to take Tesla private", for example...
  • itsslo 8y ago
    I disagree, it was of the same nature and tone.