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by bboygravity 1344 days ago
> Can you also provides evidence that activists have taken over most sources of information in the US?

Most sources of information that the majority of people consume and trust, yes: https://dfmworkers.org/hedge-funds-and-newspapers-a-simple-p...

I can definitely see how fake or real activism would benefit hedge funds to drive attention away from news about how they've been destroying the financial markets and economy through deregulation and corruption.

I can also see why they would want to own newspapers to just directly trade on whatever they know will be in their own newspaper tomorrow (or news website in 1 second).