Billionaire shorts were the villains of the #Gamestop squeeze, accused running negative PR campaigns against beloved firms to drive them under and pay their bets off:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/30/meme-stocks/#stockstonks

But shorts can do the lord's work. Writing for *Bloomberg*, #KathyBurton tells of #NateAnderson, whose #HindenburgResesearch cost some of the world's wealthiest people over $99b by publishing investigative reports on their balance-sheet shell-games just this year:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-08-06/how-much-did-hindenburg-make-from-shorting-adani-dorsey-icahn
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