AntiSocialMedia.net by Judd Bagley

I recently had the honor of lecturing a group of business students at the University of Texas, on the topic of abuse of social media by stock manipulators. I’ve merged the recording of the lecture with my slide presentation and make it available for you here.

While I suspect Gary Weiss has had an extensive relationship with DTCC, Boyd says DTCC spokesman Stuart Goldstein has personally denied as much to him on multiple occasions. What remains unclear is why, for 18 months, Stu Goldstein has insisted on answering my questions through Roddy Boyd.

We knew his aim was to discredit and marginalize high profile opponents of illegal naked short selling. Yet his book, which seemed to be the launch pad of Weiss’s campaign, was quite critical of both hedge fund and prime broker culture: the two obvious sides of the naked shorting equation. So who was paying Gary Weiss to spend all day, most every day, publishing his attacks via his blog, message boards, and Wikipedia? Answer: the DTCC

There has been much speculation as to the root of Gary Weiss’s abiding interest in the personalities voicing their objections to the practice of illegal naked short securities trading.
In February of this year, some felt that question was answered in the form of a minor yet tremendously significant incident from which it could be fairly [...]