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AntiSocialMedia with Judd Bagley
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Analysis of the abuse of social media — blogs, Wikipedia, message boards, etc — for the purpose of enabling illegal stock market manipulation.
Daniel Loeb is Mr. Pink and more
The Silicon Investor stock message boards have Mr. Pink. The Yahoo Finance stock message boards have Mr_Pink_esq. In this legal filing, hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb admits that he is the Mr. Pink of Silicon Investor. According to this Wall Street Journal story, Loeb insists that he is not Mr_Pink_esq of Yahoo Finance. Loeb, as it turns out, is not telling the truth, and here’s how I know it...
Gary Weiss knows what Joe knows
Gary Weiss come to know the substance, sentiment and timing of one of New York Times business columnist Joe Nocera’s most vicious attacks against opponents of illegal naked short selling, long before it was published?
Gary Weiss and DTCC: Roddy Boyd Responds
In an earlier item, I noted that perhaps one of the strangest things I’ve experienced as a reporter is having Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) spokesman Stuart Z. Goldstein ignore my request for comment for several days, only to receive an answer not from Goldstein, but from then-New York Post business writer Roddy Boyd.
The Sound of one Hand Clapping
As we’ve seen this issue clumsily addressed by business media over the past week, something that particularly stands out is the question of whether “naked short selling” is illegal. In one of Chairman Cox’s earliest interviews, he said that no, naked short selling is not illegal, unless it is done illegally (which he went on to explain means unless it is abused as a tool of stock manipulation).
Gary Weiss: his DTCC ties and lies
We knew Gary Weiss's aim was to discredit and marginalize high profile opponents of illegal naked short selling. Yet his book, which seemed to be the launch pad of Weiss’s campaign, was quite critical of both hedge fund and prime broker culture: the two obvious sides of the naked shorting equation.So who was paying Weiss to spend all day, most every day, publishing his attacks via his blog, message boards, and Wikipedia? Nobody had ever considered the DTCC.
Gary Weiss, Usenet Troll
This email from Gary Weiss to Floyd Schneider isn’t significant for what it says, but for what it…
Gary Weiss doesn't like Liz Moyer
Gary Weiss has issues with Forbes journalist Liz Moyer, whom opponents of illegal naked short selling hold in high regard for her balanced and accurate reporting on the subject.
Gary Weiss and his Yahoo Gnomes
What brought me into this fight in a public way was the discovery that Gary Weiss was posting…
The Final Word on Gary Weiss and Wikipedia
One of the strangest things I’ve ever seen is how Gary Weiss deals with getting caught in a…
July 14, 2008
Roger and Me: insights into the dark world of stock manipulation
The first several posts published on AntiSocialMedia.net dealt with former BusinessWeek reporter Gary Weiss and his abuse of…