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Study shows users banned from social platforms go elsewhere with increased toxicity
Users banned from social platforms go elsewhere with increased toxicity, according to a new study featuring researchers from Binghamton University, State University of New York.
Does deplatforming work? Research explores effects of banning users from social network platforms
Article title: Understanding the Effect of Deplatforming on Social Networks Authors: Shiza Ali, Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Esraa Aldreabi, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Savvas Zannettou, Gianluca Stringhini From the authors: “We find that users who get banned on Twitter/Reddit exhibit an…
Financial expert offer insight on Gamestop short squeeze
There are a few trends at work with the Reddit/Gamestop short squeeze, according to Daniel McKeever, assistant professor in the School of Management at Binghamton University, State University of New York. The first is the gamification of trading on app-based…
GameStop trade clash roils the market, but economic fundamentals will prevail
What should we make of the spikes in the stock prices of companies like GameStop and AMC Entertainment? Has the pandemic suspended the laws of economics as they apply to share prices? Is there something more nefarious going on? Some brokerage…
GameStop chaos offers test of post-2008 financial regime
Chaos erupted on Wall Street this week as members of a stock trading group on Reddit collectively bought stock in GameStop and AMC, among others, unexpectedly and exponentially raising stock prices. Robert Hockett is professor of law at Cornell…
Law Professor, Derivatives Expert, Available to Comment on GameStop’s Wild Ride on Wall Street
“This is the case of the common man taking hedge fund billionaires to the cleaners,” says Michael Greenberger, Maryland Carey Law professor and financial derivatives expert, of the extraordinary events taking place on Wall Street where GameStop shares have soared…
‘Little guys sticking it to Wall Street?’ WVU expert explains how Redditors gamed the stock market
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – One West Virginia University financial expert believes the recent stock surges of GameStop and other companies undermine public confidence in the market and could ultimately harm the economy. A coordinated effort by individual traders on social media…
Reddit Reveals Peaks of Public Interest in COVID-19 Topics
Online forums can be used by public health officials to quickly identify topics of public interest during the COVID-19 pandemic and to quell misinformation
Algorithm tracker monitors Reddit rankings of COVID-19 posts
Since 2016, Cornell University assistant professor of communication J. Nathan Matias has tracked the algorithms on Reddit, a massive network of forums where people share content and news, and which claims to have more users than Twitter. As the coronavirus pandemic exploded, Matias began using the tool – called the COVID-19 Algo-Tracker – to monitor Reddit’s virus-related posts and threads, both to inform people about the mechanisms behind the information they’re receiving and to create a large, publicly available dataset for future research.