How GameStop became a “meme stock”

We looked at GameStop’s ballooning share price Friday, and since then things have … progressed. Today, we’ll look at what happened between the beleaguered video game retailer and r/WallStreetBets with “numb fascination.” Plus: contrasting Twitter and Facebook’s rules around misinformation and — one more time — Janet Treasury-Secretaryin’.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• “A Fight Over GameStop’s Soaring Stock Turns Ugly” from Wired
• “Twitter launches ‘Birdwatch,’ a forum to combat misinformation” from NBC News
• “Trump Wants Back on Facebook. This Star-Studded Jury Might Let Him.” from The New York Times
• “Budweiser skips Super Bowl ads in favor of vaccine education campaign” from Axios
• “Senate Confirms Yellen as Treasury Secretary as Stimulus Talks Loom” from The New York Times
• One more time, here are all the links to listen to Dessa’s song “Who’s Yellen Now?”

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