{"id":85485,"date":"2023-08-03T00:13:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T04:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=85485"},"modified":"2023-08-03T00:22:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T04:22:37","slug":"elon-musk-tweets-and-twitter-bots-drove-up-price-of-ftx-listed-altcoins-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2023\/elon-musk-tweets-and-twitter-bots-drove-up-price-of-ftx-listed-altcoins-research-finds.html","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk tweets and Twitter bots drove up price of FTX-listed altcoins, research finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Rampant bots on Twitter helped to pump up the price of cryptocurrency, including coins traded by insiders at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/FTT.CM=\/\">FTX<\/a> hedge fund Alameda Research before its collapse, according to a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/networkcontagion.us\/reports\/7-31-23-bot-driven-gold-rush-unmasking-the-role-of-inauthentic-social-media-activity-on-the-crypto-market-and-beyond\/\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a> from the Network Contagion Research Institute published Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/08\/02\/elon-musk-tweets-twitter-bots-boosted-ftx-listed-crypto-researchers.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Rampant bots on Twitter helped to pump up the price of cryptocurrency, including coins traded by insiders at FTX hedge fund Alameda Research before its collapse, according to a new study from the Network Contagion Research Institute published Wednesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85486,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85485\/revisions\/85486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}