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How social media fuelled the Silicon Valley Bank run

The biggest dangers of any business are the ones that companies fail to imagine and don’t know they should fear

Tony Cookson didn’t know much about Silicon Valley Bank before Silicon Valley Bank collapsed. When the economist became curious about the bank, he already knew what happened. He wanted to know how it happened and whether it’s going to happen again.

So he set out to answer what might be the most intriguing question about the bank run: Was it fuelled by social media?

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