But it never was propagated via WSB. Instead the WSJ and NYtimes put that shit right on their front pages. For days.
Now that the SEC is looking into it they quickly would very much to forget that they were much involved in the SLV pump and dump scheme:
Just to be clear: That Silver talk was on the pages of the newspapers, but not on reddit. Nowhere to be seen.
I forgot who said that malice should be ruled out as long as stupidity and ineptness can be used as a reasonable explanation. Which is, I am afraid to say, the case with both the NY Times and WSJ. They are well written. But so much of what they write is nonsense. Amazing that people still fall for it. And buy silver. Following the detour laid out by the papers for them …