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Anonymous Reddit post, articles about ‘unruly’ NC lawmakers challenged

April 30, 2024 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — An anonymous post on the social media platform Reddit claiming North Carolina lawmakers were drunk and rude during a visit to an unnamed Kentucky distillery appears to have been blown out of proportion. […]

Millennial Money: Should you take money advice from Reddit?

July 2, 2021 Laura McMullen, NerdWallet

Should you take money advice from a stranger on the internet? In Reddit’s r/personalfinance channel, anonymous users exchange tips on buying homes, choosing insurance plans and managing very personal, nuanced money situations. (Think: “How do […]

Even as meme stocks surge, retirement savers stay vanilla

June 18, 2021 Stan Choe, Associated Press

NEW YORK — It might seem like everyone is having a wild time shooting for the stars with GameStop and other meme stocks. But just as day-to-day life for most of us is more mundane […]

GameStop’s saga may be over; its effect on Wall Street isn’t

February 16, 2021 Stan Choe and Alex Veiga, Associated Press

NEW YORK — The frenzy around GameStop’s stock may have quieted down, but the outsized influence small investors had in the saga is likely to stick around. No one expects another supernova like GameStop to […]

Reddit, Twitch clamp down Trumpist forums

June 29, 2020 Tali Arbel, Associated Press

Reddit, an online comment forum that is one of the internet’s most popular websites, on Monday banned a forum that supported President Donald Trump as part of a crackdown on free speech. The Trump forum, […]