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A short seller who does that faces jail however. Compare that to journalists who have no such downside to sensationalism or "errors" in their facts.
by LatteLazy 4y ago
A short seller who does that faces jail however. Compare that to journalists who have no such downside to sensationalism or "errors" in their facts.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> journalists who have no such downside to sensationalism or "errors" in their facts There are multiple libel and defamation cases in play in almost every competent jurisdiction at any given time.
- LatteLazy 4y agoWhich, at worst, is dismissed in bankruptcy court. No amount of liable or defamation can land you in jail. At least not in the US...
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> is dismissed in bankruptcy court Defamation and libel cases against journalists regularly pay out. (They pay out infrequently against public figures, in part because the threshold is higher and in part because journalists are more careful with them.)
- MichaelCollins 4y agoBankman-Fried was paying journalists to write nice things about him, so surely he was a public figure.
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- hef19898 4y agoCoursr manipulation can, and does, so.
- LatteLazy 4y agoWhat is Coursr?
- hef19898 4y agoCourse, typing regularly in three languages had me turn of auto-correct. Sometimes, it backfires...
- LatteLazy 4y agoCourse as in share price etc? I believe... Unless you profit by it, you can say what you want to cause share prices to go up or down and it is not a crime. Is that incorrect?
- kasey_junk 4y agoNotice I specifically said “oversell a weakness”. If what a short seller says is true and then they add their analysis, which presents a dire case, that is largely not seen as illegal market manipulation. Activist funds do this every day.