So, here's what I see in the near future, if not already. Somebody goes on social media and says,

"The hedge funds are shorting this stock! Power to the people! Down with the hedge funds! Let's all buy this stock, push it up, and burn the hedge funds!"

But they are already holding the stock. And and as soon as it gets bid up, they sell for a nice profit, and all those little would-be Wall Street warriors for social justice wind up holding the bag when the stock inevitably collapses.

The ol' pump-and-dump.

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