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Multi-trillion-dollar stock market swings on Monday appear to have been set off by false reports on Elon Musk’s X. Experts say the episode highlights the social media site’s enduring relevance, even as it helps amplify falsehoods.
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About a minute later, it was posted by the X account “Walter Bloomberg,” which has more than 850,000 followers. Although the account is not affiliated with Bloomberg News, it often shares the news organization’s headlines. The account’s boosting of the false headline prompted chatter among CNBC analysts on live television about a possible 90-day reprieve from Trump’s tariffs.
This ist the dumbest fucking timeline.
What do you mean? I get my news from John Fox and Peter Newsmaxx
You got your laptop from Tim Apple, right?
I got my jobs from Steve wait I did this wrong
Tom BroFox and Peter JenNewsmaxx? Legendary newscasters.
2025 and people are still treating X as a source of information.
youtube comments section has more reliability than what Twitter ever did
X where are all musk bros, and trumpers are the one holding the bags.
Isnt that blatant market manipulation? Rule of law is thing in the past now.
It was a pump-and-dump scam, I’m almost sure of it.
Someone made millions off of that Xeet.
Someone made millions off of that Xeet.
I prefer to call them Xcrements
Xat
consider that profiting off volitility and lazyness is generally a good strategy.
In statements to NPR, Reuters said it has withdrawn the incorrect report, blaming a headline published on CNBC. When asked for comment, CNBC said it “aired unconfirmed information in a banner,” which it “quickly” corrected.
What in the absolute fuck?
Market manipulation
Yeah. Money is not lost in finance markets, it is redistributed. Reading any of this as random and/or unintentional is beyond naive.
IDK, it wouldn’t be the first time a news org published some random shit as fact because they’re too eager to be the first to report on something.
Redistributed up.
I prefer “siphoned”
…by whom? A random Twitter user? CNBC? Reuters?
Anyone who could make this news break would be in a position to steal unfathomable amounts of money in broad daylight, and get away with it.
I think we should always suspect bad actors in cases like this, and investigate thoroughly. It’s too easy of a scam with too much money to be made.
Maybe there is nobody to blame. But assuming so just seems incredibly naive to me considering the amount of bad actors and the ease of pulling a stunt like this.
Anyone who could make this news break would be in a position to steal unfathomable amounts of money in broad daylight, and get away with it.
They’d also have to be in a position to lose a ridiculous amount of of money in the extremely likely case that no one looks twice at their completely unsupported Tweet.
Should we look at it? Absolutely. Do I see any evidence? No. Literally anyone could have tweeted the same thing. The far more likely scenario, in my eyes, is that these news orgs saw this Tweet picking up traction from a bunch of idiots and couldn’t take the risk of being the last one to report the “news”, and so went ahead and reported completely unfounded non-sense anyway.
went ahead and reported completely unfounded non-sense anyway.
The White House is now such a mess I don’t know how organizations would even go about verifying this anyway. You can ask for an official statement and it’s just a random guess by someone these days, it’s not an official statement of policy.
Could be, but that’s on the White House, not the reporters. Not the case here.
If you control social media, you also control who gets to see what in their feeds.
So you think Elon was behind this?
why not, hes losing billions in tesla right now, he probably also wants to make others who helped him recoup some lossess.
The only ones that do this are hedge funds. Adult Frat boys.
Okay, and what did the “adult frat boys” do, exactly?
Also worth noting that the White House has now confirmed the 90 day tariff freeze.
They do various schemes to manipulate and extract money from the free markets.
It’s not a conspiracy, they are quite open even with their methods, because they are… Bragging… About it.
Great, so you shouldn’t have any problem explaining exactly what they did?
How do you reckon that? Not a little antoganistic haha. Good luck in life like that
these are the people who are leading us into a recession… they fall for a fucking random tweet…
Maybe it was deliberate cause it’s all a big game.
You’re so full of shit, this isn’t a recession.
This is a proper depression, just like the last time people fucked with tariffs.
What was that they said during the stupid reddit thingy with stock markets? “It’s not a casino”?
I mean kinda. Except that the odds are actually stacked in your favor.
the twitter post didn’t cause it to happen the idiot in the white house did with his stupid trade war.
Do it again pls
I saw the video. A reporter asked if the president would consider a 90 day pause and the white house guy responds with “yeah, well, you know, the president is going to do what he wants to do.”
But the first thing out of the fucking guys mouth was “yeah”. So of course the reporter is going to run with it when it was literally just a filler word cuz the dude didn’t know how to answer the question.
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