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‘Democratized Finance’ App Robinhood Halts Purchases Of GameStop, AMC, American Airlines
The lulz (and soaring financial gains) of Reddit’s insurgent investor community, WallStreetBets, are on hold Thursday morning as popular stock-trading app Robinhood halted key types of trades of its favorite stocks due to “significant market volatility.” Robinhood’s decision to halt trading on GameStop and other Reddit “YOLO” stocks is the latest bump in the ongoing…
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Andrew Couts & Whitney Kimball
Here’s How the Mysterious Twitter ‘Carp’ Meme Came to Be
For a brief moment on Friday night, spectacularly bored and homebound Twitter users marveled in delight at a strange phenomenon on the social network: Everyone was tweeting the word “carp.” Questions abounded. What? Why? Huh? I’m missing something, right? Now, hundreds of thousands of tweets and at least one dumb joke blog later, we have…
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Andrew Couts & Shoshana Wodinsky