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FBI Looking At Social Media For Tips on Insider Trading Investigations

Part of "Operation Perfect Hedge"

Reason Staff | 11.26.2012 8:28 AM


(Reuters) - The FBI sees social media as a potential breeding ground for securities fraud, and has agents scouring Twitter and Facebook for tips, according to two top agents overseeing a long-running investigation into insider trading in the $2 trillion hedge fund industry.

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