What responsibilities does Seeking Alpha have if any.Recently, Facebook has come under increasing scrutiny from regulators, the EU and the U.S. government regarding their printing of articles that masquerade as fact without any
oversight or verification that the the articles are in fact true.
What about Seeking Alpha? Do they have any responsible for printing articles that are in fact
opinion masquering as fact? Of course, I refer to the recent printing by the so called Hindenberg
Research company regarding Aphria.
This aritcle was a blantant attempt to damage a company to profit the writers with absolutely
no fact checking on behalf of the site that printed it. How is this different than what Facebook is
being accused of? It is one thing to print an opinion, it is another to print a salacious attack on a company filled with half trucths and totally made up so called "facts"
Seeking Alpha should be ashamed of itself and so should the varous news outlets that accepted this piece of self serving so called "analysis" as truth. Where is journalism when no one bothers to
question articles like this and instead simply regurgitates its contents.?
Shame on Seeking Alpha and shame on the media that blindly accepted its conclusions without fact checking any of the sources.
We will recover from this, it will take time but it does says a lot of about the varous financial
writers who prefer to let others do their work and simply report it as fact.
A sad day for journalism.