AntiSocialMedia.net by Judd Bagley

The Silicon Investor stock message boards have Mr. Pink. The Yahoo Finance stock message boards have Mr_Pink_esq. In this legal filing, hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb admits that he is the Mr. Pink of Silicon Investor. According to this Wall Street Journal story, Loeb insists that he is not Mr_Pink_esq of Yahoo Finance. Loeb, as it turns out, is not telling the truth, and here’s how I know it.

Intrigued, I started examining the posting histories of the most prolific sources of this disinformation, trying to identify patterns that might in turn reveal their underlying motives and, often enough, their real identities. Well over two years later, I remain engaged in the same pursuit. And, to be frank, I suspect that by now, I understand it better than anybody else, largely because of a few methods I’ve developed and the great amounts of information I’ve received from others.