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The SVB Collapse, How the Government Responded, and the Era in Tech that Ended This Weekend

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

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Social Media Disinfo Campaigns to Fuel Further Bank Runs

David Ulevitch, a general partner at Andries and Horowitz: We saw the first memetic social media fueled bank run in history Thursday and Friday. As my partners and I spend the weekend working to help our portfolio companies, you could be sure our foreign adversaries are ramping up social media disinfo campaigns to fuel further bank runs. It just feels like social media, the consensus building aspects of social media have created these conditions where destabilizing events happen faster and more frequently than ever before.

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