Social Media and the Stock Market: A Lesson in Global Manipulation
By Kate Prince, {grow} Community Member A hacker starts an online rumor about a place crash. The “news” goes viral and the airline’s stock plummets. The hacker makes a fortune on stock short sales that day and slinks back to his anonymous world undetected. A company legally makes a material announcement on Facebook about an […]
Five reasons to be freaked out by the Facebook experiment
Facebook’s admitted manipiulation of its customer’s emotional state might be shocking but there are deeper reasons for concern