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The rise and fall of WallStreetBets: social roles and opinion leaders across the GameStop saga
Anna Mancini, Antonio Desiderio, Giovanni Palermo +2
Nowadays human interactions largely take place on social networks, with online users' behavior often falling into a few general typologies or "social roles". Among these, opinion l…
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The dynamics of the Reddit collective action leading to the GameStop short squeeze
Antonio Desiderio, Luca Maria Aiello, Giulio Cimini +1
In early 2021, the stock prices of GameStop, AMC, Nokia and BlackBerry experienced dramatic increases, triggered by short-squeeze operations that have been largely attributed to Re…