You should actually do a little bit of research into what’s happening and you would know why this couldn’t be happening. Its known that these hedge funds don’t own the shares, but they actually owe a bunch of shares to a broker because they thought they would be able to profit from borrowing the stock, selling it, and buying it again at a lower price later, then returning the share to the broker. You’ll probably have to read that a couple times because it’s incredibly stupid and shouldn’t be legal but basically these hedge funds now need to return their shares by buying them at a ridiculous price and then returning it or paying massive interest to the broker who loaned them. The longer this goes on the higher the stock price gets, and with 130% of the available shares being shorted through an illegal activity called “naked shorting”, the stock will reach the tens of thousands unless the government intervenes after it reaches a few thousand. This has only ever happened a few other times, and this is why we aren’t selling.
I'm saying what if the individuals own shares, not the hedge fund
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