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		chrischen on Jan 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Analysis: Robinhood protected from lawsuits by use... They did shoot up in the app store during this negative publicity. It could be that a vocal minority just don’t matter.

thinkingemote on Jan 30, 2021 [–]

They shot up earlier in the week of the publicity because it wasn't negative right then and they were the business of choice for the user of wsb. All meme stocks were being bought using this.

On Thursday and Friday was when the publicity turned negative.

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