So if they “like” the stock it’s okay and if they are using a market analysis of the riskiness of the hedge funds short position it’s manipulation? I can quite make out what is your final take away from your story.

There are rules and it seems like the hedge fund managers are now crying because a group of retail investors figured out how to make the rules work for retail investors instead of the hedge funds. The hedge funds, like Citadel, have a lot of advantages including buying data from Robinhood and possibly pressuring Robinhood to suspend trading.

Seems like there are bigger issues of fairness in the markets that is being highlighted by this story. If the hedge funds are able to use their power to change the rules when they lose then the system will truly be in danger of being seen as a totally rigged game that the average Joe can never ever win. You point out the losses in the hedge funds accounts aren’t their losses. Well they are not the losses of the average man in the street either. It’s usually only the very wealthy who use hedge funds and they are the very epitome of an “accredited investor”. They are warned of risks before investing their funds; I doubt anyone who invested through Robinhood was warned their trades could be halted by the whining and tears of a bunch of wealthy hedge fund guys.