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Inauthentic online activity is increasingly shaping, distorting, and amplifying the narratives that form around public companies. What looks like broad market sentiment may, in fact, be the work of a small group of accounts pushing the same themes until they appear more credible than they are.
43 DAYS AGO
In November 2022, a fake tweet claiming Eli Lilly would begin giving away insulin for free went viral on Twitter. The tweet wasn’t from the company’s official account, but it was convincing enough and amplified quickly enough that it caused Eli Lilly’s stock to plunge and triggered chaos across the pharmaceutical sector.
197 DAYS AGO
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand.”
1039 DAYS AGO
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