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I was a prop trader/mm for 7 yrs; one thing that struck me when I started looking at social networks was how much more active Wall St regulators were at responding to threats to market integrity, such as emergent forms of seemingly manipulative behavior https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/05/23/there-are-bots-look-around/
So this week's Reddit shenanigans have been very interesting to watch, both as yet another manifestation of online crowds (wrote ab that too) and because I am very interested to see how quickly regulators step in (and how) https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/09/15/crowds-and-technology/
This is what I think of now when I think about dynamics of information flows online today regardless of topic (mis, dis, harrassment, whatever). As I understand it, each bird can see the 7 birds next to it & acts in response to the actions of those birds.
