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Slow WiFi and an exposed Google history are an avid internet user’s worst nightmares, and the Obama-era rules that protect from these have been under attack since 2017. Hopes for…
GameStop stock soared and trading was halted. Then Reddit crashed.
Here we go again. GameStop madness — or GameStonk madness, if you prefer — struck again on Wednesday afternoon. GameStop’s stock price soared at the end of the trading day,…
The 5-second Reddit Super Bowl ad you probably missed
If you stared at your chicken wings too long, you may have missed it. Reddit, the social news site and “frontpage of the internet” launched their first Super Bowl ad…
Reddit swoops in to resolve WallStreetBets moderator drama
The adults have spoken. After a moderator dispute threatened to tear apart the popular subreddit r/wallstreetbets, Reddit itself was forced to step in to stop the bleeding. In a message…
Reddit’s WallStreetBets is crowdfunding a Super Bowl ad to ‘sh*t’ on Robinhood
“Fuck Robinhood.” Members of the increasingly popular subreddit r/wallstreetbets were in a fighting mood Wednesday, pointing to a thirty-second video the stock-trading app Robinhood currently plans to run during this…
Robinhood now says you can buy one GameStop share, as a treat
Corporate benevolence has never looked so sweet. After first preventing its users from purchasing GameStop stock on Thursday, the free-trading app Robinhood reversed course. On Friday, in its ultimate wisdom…
Here’s how to transfer stocks out of your Robinhood account
Taking from the poor and giving to the rich was never supposed to be Robinhood’s thing. Users of the free stock-trading app Robinhood were up in arms Thursday after the…
WallStreetBets’ popularity broke Reddit’s moderation tools
Reddit’s r/wallstreetbets just had too much of a good thing. As traffic to the subreddit hit an all-time Wednesday, things started to head south on the back end. According to…
Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets took on Wall Street, and the memes are priceless
Because memes, unlike gains, are forever. As members of the r/wallstreetbets subreddit continued their ongoing battle with short selling hedge funds Wednesday, driving the price of GameStop (and theater chain…
Discord bans WallStreetBets server for ‘hateful and discriminatory content’
Discord is not going long on r/wallstreetbets. The group chat service banned the server associated with the wildly popular WallStreetBets subreddit Wednesday, saying the move had nothing to do with…