Yeah, when the hedge funds and market makers do it (via naked short selling of fictitious shares), everyone looks the other way. Now, finally, there's a crowd-sourced counter to this longstanding abuse, but of course it can't be tolerated because that would even the playing field.
Its about Keith Gill ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Gill )
About the Gamestop stock short squeeze
Looks like it may be as good as the movie The Big Short
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