> The biggest problem is Robinhood's poor messaging. It's clear their highest priority was to avoid admission that they were running out of money. They didn't w

> The biggest problem is Robinhood's poor messaging. It's clear their highest priority was to avoid admission that they were running out of money. They didn't want to trigger a bank run or shake the confidence of their newly acquired users, so they tried to obscure the message as much as possible. As a result, the popular narrative assumed some sort of evil conspiracy theory. All of the previous bits of your message don't matter because this right here killed any chance of "good faith" people might have in Robinhood. Even if there really is no conspiracy, I personally am moving 100% to Fidelity after this fiasco (in fact, I moved everything but my remaining GME that exists in Robinhood already). I honestly, at this point, have about 20% faith that Robinhood will allow me to liquidate that GME - instead they will probably remove the "sell" button at some point too. I explicitly do not trust Robinhood anymore. It's one thing to say "we fucked up", or even "we can't handle this load anymore, we are going to need to remove the buy button". I'd be pissed but wouldn't want them scorched - at this point I hope the whole company goes bankrupt instead.