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A Bot Made Millions on Wall Street by Reading the Web. It Also Ate This Guy’s Lunch.

On the afternoon of Friday, March 27, as several news outlets reported at the time, somebody apparently made $2.4 million from a tweet. That tweet was a bit of breaking news from Wall Street Journal writer Dana Mattioli: Quicker than any human seemingly could have done it, someone—or rather somethin…

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