‘Highly-Shorted’ Stocks Slammed As WallStreetBets Reddit Site Goes Down For Some

GME, AMC, and a slew of other highly-shorted names are suddenly plunging as reports of outages of the WallStreetBets site on Reddit spread.

This is what some are seeing this morning…

DownDetector shows the outage seems more regional…

The highly-shorted stocks are getting hit as this happens…

Correlation or causation?