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Jon Stewart Joins Twitter, Denounces Robinhood

Paul Bois
Jon Stewart Joins Twitter, Denounces Robinhood
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It’s hard to believe that Jon Stewart, the former host of “The Daily Show,” had avoided Twitter all this time. Alas, there’s a first time for everything.

Over the weekend, the political comedian joined the social media giant and torched the trading app Robinhood after it implemented a trade freeze on the surging GameStop (GME) stock that the Reddit group WallStreetBets pushed in an attempt to “squeeze” big hedge fund mangers who were short-selling the stock.

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