I mean... I don't want to speculate about that particular incident, but generally, increasing parts of portfolio management seem to be done by algorithms. It se

I mean... I don't want to speculate about that particular incident, but generally, increasing parts of portfolio management seem to be done by algorithms. It seems plausible to me that the "verified" badge on twitter could be coded as some sort of trust anchor in some of those. Something like "scan all tweets of the last day for names of our stocks + some keywords, but restrict the search to verified accounts only". That kind of signal would be strongly affected by the current chaos.