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How Twitter helped kill a bank, then bail it out
https://www.afr.com/ ^ | May 05, 2023 | By Penny Crosman

Posted on 05/06/2023 12:41:01 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

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Share Bank runs are always extraordinary. But the first bank run of the social media age has been something else.

The speed with which Silicon Valley Bank collapsed on Friday night under the staggering weight of $US42 billion ($63 billion) of withdrawals, and then had its depositors bailed out on Sunday night in similarly short order, is in part due to the power of social media, and the speed with which information travels across it.

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1 posted on 05/06/2023 12:41:01 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

If you don’t blame Trump, blame Musk


2 posted on 05/06/2023 12:49:35 PM PDT by George from New England
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To: George from New England

Yeah, Musk has become a favored target of the woke. More so than Trump.


3 posted on 05/06/2023 1:11:44 PM PDT by ckilmer (q)
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To: RomanSoldier19

This article is from March, not today.

That’s ok, it’s just labeled wrong.

It was confusing that it said “last Friday” when it happened almost two months ago.

I’m sure it’s a fine article but I can’t read it due to paycwall.


4 posted on 05/06/2023 1:25:34 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to se)
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