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Re:Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop ... by Thorrez on Friday January 29, 2021 @01:01AM (#25954549)
>It's why have they all decided to act right now

They might have decided in many cases to act now, but with this specific case it seems to have been 11 days ago:

>Facebook suspended his group on Jan. 7

Re:Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop ... by ttt0 on Friday January 29, 2021 @01:13AM (#25954600)
I think this is a mistake. They already issued one correction from "20-member" to "20,000-member". The author seems to have serious problems with numbers. Look at the first paragraph:

> Facebook Inc took down a popular Wall Street discussion group, Robinhood Stock Traders, in a move that its founder on Thursday described as backlash for conversations buoying shares of GameStop Corp and other companies this week.

First, a typo, "buoying". But it also says "this week". So what they meant is probably Jan. 27.

Re:Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop ... by jmalicki on Friday January 29, 2021 @01:24AM (#25954657)
Not a typo, a totally appropriate word. The conversations buoyed the shares, they did not buy them.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/buoyi...

Re:Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop ... by ttt0 on Friday January 29, 2021 @01:27AM (#25954677)
Thanks, English is not my native language.
Re:Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop ... by Thorrez on Friday January 29, 2021 @01:34AM (#25954708)
Hmm, good point, I didn't think of that possibility. It's a very confusing article, as I mentioned in a different comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25954579
Re:Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop ... by ttt0 on Friday January 29, 2021 @02:19AM (#25954916)
That's what got me confused too, the entire article makes zero sense if it was on Jan 7. Good catch though, I would have never noticed that.