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Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

I'd been wondering why no serious journalist or major publication had picked up on this story

An article in the Byline Times, which has been shared tens of thousands of times on social media, makes a series of claims about donors to Vote Leave and Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign standing to profit from a no deal Brexit.

But at least one key part of the article—a claim that the number of “short positions” taken by hedge funds increased dramatically in the lead up to Boris Johnson’s election as Conservative leader—seems likely to be based on a misunderstanding of the data.

In reality, no such spike in the number of short positions seems to have occurred

Read more: https://fullfact.org/economy/short-positions/