The Investment Thread

Turfie said

This is how media manipulation works. GameStop has yet to make any official statement regarding their plans for what their NFT marketplace may look like.

So WSJ writes an article. Which even in the article it says that “GameStop declined to comment on the story”

Then, other media outlets such as Yahoo Finance run the story as if GameStop was the one who made the announcement.

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/gamestops-planned-nft-marketplace-dead-170904327.html
Leads off with the host saying: “GameStop announcing it is entering the world of NFTs and cryptocurrencies”

Then the host brings on a guest to talk about “GameStop’s latest announcement”

Guest expert: All GameStop’s NFT marketplace will do is attract terrorist groups like al qaeda to launder money.

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As someone that works with these media groups, I can promise you are giving them far too much credit.

WSJ, Forbes, Yahoo, NY Post and other second rate organizations don't have a budget which means they do not have the resources to actually do news. They simply have a few people in an office with subscriptions to other site articles like USA Today and a dozen or so other half functioning ariticle mills. So they take the articles, reword them, put a catchy headline and realized a long time ago that they can make more money off of clickbait and no expenses than actually trying to put any thought or individual effort on any one thing. As long as they are cranking out an article an hour the near minimum wage minions they have working get cookies. If they don't then it's bad minion and no cookies. Quality control is none and they don't care about anything more than clicks.