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Eh, Ackman appears to be the hero that we need. by EricCartman
Not the one that we want.
He has been tweeting all weekend about tax fraud at MIT, how Business Insider is a hack muckraking website, and how he is now going to put everyone at MIT under the microscope for plagiarism. He might do the same to the journalists at Business Insider.
Ackman spent five years in a battle over Herbalife. The dude is a pitbull with tons of resources at his disposal. We are going to find out if it is still a bad idea to pick a fight with people that buy ink by the barrel, in the age of social media and billionaires.
I'm just here for the chaos.