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Meanwhile, cybersecurity company PiiQ Media, as reported by Reuters, found that bots on major social media platforms – Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube – have been hyping up GameStop and other “meme” stocks. This is “suggesting organized economic or foreign actors may have played a role in the Reddit-driven trading frenzy,” the article said, but it also noted that it’s unclear how influential exactly bots were in the overall saga. PiiQ estimated that there are tens of thousands of bot accounts hyping these stocks, as well as DOGE.