La red antisocial

In early 2021, an uncoordinated group of private investors and internet trolls exchanging stock and market messages on a website did something unexpected: bring down one of Wall Street's biggest hedge funds. It was the first shot of a revolution that threatens to end the financial system as we know it. This vertiginous and daring book reconstructs the history of that unprecedented event. Its protagonists are titans of investment, millionaires like Elon Musk, the creators of the investment tool Robinhood and many anonymous people with normal lives. All of them, for four days, waged a battle over GameStop, a chain of video game and electronics stores whose shares soared. What started as an online joke, with emoticons and memes, ended up putting the system in check and reporting millionaire benefits to the participants.