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Re:GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine by tremon on Thursday January 28, 2021 @06:53AM (#25940742)
People were not coordinated

Hasn't Musk been fined -repeatedly- by the FTC for doing exactly that?

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Re:GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine by rank0 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:51AM (#25943745)
No. He's not rallying people to buy TSLA and surge the price short term. He tweets other stupid things like claiming to take the company private at $420 and that the stock price is too high.
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Re:GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine by Judgmentality on Thursday January 28, 2021 @01:49PM (#25946883)
This is objectively false. He was fined by the FTC for market manipulation.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/28/elon-musk...

It's okay to like Tesla but please don't spread lies.

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Re:GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine by rank0 on Thursday February 04, 2021 @01:54PM (#26028541)
Did you even read that article? That is exactly what I was referencing.

He was fined for misleading investors not for coordinating a distributed group effort. Musk absolutely wanted to take Telsa private but was unable to and made an early announcement.

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