Article plus links to six news stories and three Leofinance posts on this topic.
A lesson in the need for Due Diligence
The news story about Walmart appears to be false, and is being Officially Denied by the Litecoin Foundation.
Apparently, this false story started when someone or some persons “supposedly” paid a Pay for Press Release site called #GlobeNewsWire to release a story this person or persons wrote.
So the press release was published on GlobeNewswire, a paid press release site, and their story was repeated in a article by Yahoo Finance, and then the same was written up by Reuters and CNBC, then the story was tweeted by the Official Litecoin Foundation Twitter account.
This of course made the Litecoin price jump nearly 30 percent in no time. Then it sold off when the news was shown to be false.
Subsequently the Litecoin Foundation issued an official press release stating the story was false.
Amazing what happens when people Assume something is true
- GlobeWire is being characterized as a pay for news site but this is a rumor.
- ‘Yahoo News assumed the story was Hot News and published it.
- Reuters and CNBC assumed Yahoo News story was true and published it.
- ‘Litecoin Foundations Official Twitter account also assumed these reputable news sites stories were true and without checking with their own organization Tweeted the story.
- ‘The word #assume is sometimes vulgarly defined as *make an #ass out of #u and #me.
- As my dad use to say, if the shoe fits…
I guess we all learned the importance of doing our own due diligence.
@shortsegments
Read more on this story here:
Link 👉 #Leofinsnce Post by @cryptowendyo
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Link 👉 Wall Street Journal
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Link 👉 Reuters News
About @shortsegments
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Happened so fast I didn't have time to sell my stack of LTC, back to where I started.
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Ha Ha Ha...maybe next time. You shoulw subscribe to Globalnewswriter :)
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SOMEONE sure made a lot of $on this one..
Yes they did.
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Yep, i reckon they did. :)
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Assume ass u me
This says it all.
All stories in this space should end with DYOR due your own research.
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Yep.
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TY
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Thanks
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@shortsegments
This article is what due diligence looks like.
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I agree.
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Thanks you
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Thank you!
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Yea I wonder how much LTC that person bought then sold. I am guessing he probably earned more than it cost him to make an article.
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I presume a lot :)
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Yes this is the difference between Presumption, which is based on evidence, and assumption, which is based on feelings not facts.
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Very well put, I will use this
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