Yasmeen Abutaleb of Reuters writes, “Twitter shares jumped on the report, which was distributed on the Internet and closely resembled Bloomberg’s news website. Its origins could not be immediately established.
“The report appeared on a site called bloomberg.market, rather than bloomberg.com. Twitter did not immediately offer additional comment.
“The website carrying the false report was registered on July 10, according to a domain search on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
“The domain was registered in Panama to WhoIsGuard, a company which puts its own information as a web site registrant to mask the identity of the actual owner.”
Read more here. Bloomberg spokesman Ty Trippet told Talking Biz News: “”The story was fake and appeared on a bogus website that was not affiliated with Bloomberg.”
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