AntiSocialMedia.net by Judd Bagley » video http://antisocialmedia.net Exposing user-generated discontent. Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:35:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Facebook, bad journalism and short selling hedge funds http://antisocialmedia.net/facebook-bad-journalism-and-short-selling-hedge-funds/ http://antisocialmedia.net/facebook-bad-journalism-and-short-selling-hedge-funds/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:07:35 +0000 antisocialmedia http://antisocialmedia.net/?p=209 Recently, short-selling hedge fund Rocker Partners paid Overstock.com $5-million to settle the lawsuit filed against them in August of 2005. This is a major victory for all public companies targeted by bear raiding hedge funds. But thanks to the unusually skewed reporting surrounding it, chances are you either hadn’t heard about the suit, or were under the impression it was frivolous and certain to fail.

This presentation examines part of the story behind the coverage of the suit, using some innovative methods to explain why what you heard about the suit and its merits likely had little in common with the reality of it.

]]> http://antisocialmedia.net/facebook-bad-journalism-and-short-selling-hedge-funds/feed/ 2 Naked short selling – redefining systemic risk http://antisocialmedia.net/naked-short-selling-redefining-systemic-risk/ http://antisocialmedia.net/naked-short-selling-redefining-systemic-risk/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 02:32:02 +0000 antisocialmedia http://antisocialmedia.net/?p=203 There is some evidence suggesting the federal government might be spending tens of billions of dollars to deal with the accumulation of failed trades caused by illegal naked short selling. If that’s true, we’re probably screwed.

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