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 […]

Keep your bet on Facebook and its dominance … for now

Facebook is the big gorilla

  By Mark Schaefer A common question I get asked in classes is if teens are abandoning Facebook. This is usually a function of the “sample of one problem” — “Well my kids are using Facebook much less, so it must be a dying platform.” Or it might come from scanning headlines about Facebook’s slowing […]