Those savvy investors would then make a tidy profit if confusion leads to higher - if mistaken- demand for Tweeter. “There might be people who aren’t necessarily idiots who decided they could implement a very cheap and easy strategy” by counting on more confusion when real Twitter shares begin to sell, he said. Still, Max Wolff, senior analyst and chief economist for ZT Wealth, said the momentum could have started with one savvy investor. More than 14.3 million shares of Tweeter changed hands yesterday, the most since 2007. “Somebody probably got confused ahead of the Twitter IPO and either misspelled the name of the company or mistyped the ticker by adding a Q at the end,” Larry Peruzzi, senior equity trader at Cabrerra Capital Markets in Boston told Bloomberg. Shares of Tweeter, which started the day at 1 cent each, hit 15 cents a share, but trading was eventually halted by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, citing a misunderstanding related to the “possible initial public offering of an unrelated security.” ![]() Tweeter, the Canton-based electronics retailer that filed for bankruptcy in 2007 and trades under the symbol TWTRQ, saw its stock shoot up by ?1,400 percent at one point yesterday, possibly due to confusion from investors looking to get a jump on shares of Twitter, which shared details of its highly anticipated IPO on Thursday, as well as its proposed stock symbol, TWTR. NPR's Shannon Bond contributed to this report.A rush to get on the Twitter IPO bandwagon could be responsible for yesterday’s massive stock price jump for Tweeter Home Entertainment Group, or could have just been a savvy investment move. But if the video is being posted to deceive people, it will be taken down, the company said. "The next time the president goes on television, some people might think, 'Wait a minute - is this real?' "Ī Twitter spokeswoman said the company will allow the video in instances where it was shared to expose it as a fake. "The particular issue is also around the so-called liar's dividend, where it's easy to claim a true video is falsified and place the onus on people to prove it's authentic," Gregory said.įarid added: "It pollutes the information ecosystem, and it casts a shadow on all content, which is already dealing with the complex fog of war," he said. "If you look at other contexts globally where the deepfake is poor quality, or of good enough quality to create room for doubt, and it's not so easy to challenge it directly," Gregory said.įurthermore, the video, regardless of where it came from and its quality, could potentially make some people question the veracity of videos of Zelenskyy in the future, researchers said. He said the Ukrainian government getting out in front of the deepfake by warning about manipulated videos weeks before this one was released, as well as Zelenskyy himself quickly saying it was a fake, helped slow its spread in the West, but it is possible that lower-quality versions of the video could take on a life of their own in other parts of the world. "The deepfake is not very well done," said Sam Gregory of the human rights group Witness, which specializes in detecting inauthentic media in crises. Researchers said that despite the deepfake not being particularly sophisticated, it should still be considered dangerous. On Russian social media, meanwhile, the deceptive video was boosted. Officials at Facebook, YouTube and Twitter said the video was removed from their platforms for violating policies. While the video shows a passable lip-sync, viewers quickly pointed out that Zelenskyy's accent was off and that his head and voice did not appear authentic upon close inspection. ![]() ![]() Ukraine's military intelligence agency released a video this month about how state-sponsored deepfakes could be used to sow panic and confusion. It is not yet clear who created the deepfake, but government officials in Ukraine have been warning for weeks about the possibility of Russia spreading manipulated videos as part of its information warfare. The video, which shows a rendering of the Ukrainian president appearing to tell his soldiers to lay down their arms and surrender the fight against Russia, is a so-called deepfake that ran about a minute long. Congress from Kyiv in this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office and posted on Facebook.Ī fake and heavily manipulated video depicting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy circulated on social media and was placed on a Ukrainian news website by hackers Wednesday before it was debunked and removed. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to members of the U.S.
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