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WSB is overflowing with false information but it's hard to distinguish lies from rumormongering and jokes.
by alisonkisk 6y ago
WSB is overflowing with false information but it's hard to distinguish lies from rumormongering and jokes.
- lazide 6y agoFor sure, and if you require a bunch of the other checkboxes be checked (ability to change price, actual change in price, artificial prices) for a single individual or in an explicit conspiracy between individuals it gets even harder still. The laws around this grew up when this was all mostly done in private or between groups of individuals that were keeping things private (at least at the start), or were paying significant money to explicitly promote something. Posting about stuff on the internet in public and causing a defacto stampede, especially when it happens after hundreds of other unconnected strangers start posting their own thing? Not sure there is any precedent. Definitely going to be some interesting court cases coming out of this!