There is NO proof and very weak evidence of the GME story being out before the stock went down.

The pics we've seen and the google index we've been told to look at are very pieces of evidence.

First the pics just cause it is easy.

There has been no pics of the article with a timestamp that isn't from the article. I'm not saying anyone edited the pic, but the fact that that can be done in the web browser in 20 seconds and leave no trace of doing so means we need more evidence than the timestamp shown in these pics. If someone can provide a pic with a timestamp outside of the article, that would be our first real evidence. I've seen phone screen shots, but they are either after the drop when timezones taken into account or they have the phones time cut off, almost as if they know they took the pic after the drop.

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Now about the google index time.

Anyone who has followed any breaking news "conspiracy" knows that google time index shows dates/times before the actual event happened. This happens all the time on big stories.

This is from Danny Sullivan - Google's public @searchliaison : helping people better understand search & Google better hear public feedback. Also: tweets on technology, TV, sci-fi & more.

I'll pass this on. It's very common that time stamp issues can happen for a variety of reasons, such as embedded time stamps having wrong time zone, multiple times on a story and other reasons.

https://twitter.com/dannysullivan/status/963899075438391298

Yes, especially as it can cause confusion. Sometimes we can't control it. For example, a Miami publication had the right date and time but wrong timezone, making the story seem five hours earlier than when it published. Hard for us to fix on our end.

https://twitter.com/dannysullivan/status/963933759912386560

Because dates are hard, not universal nor absolute. Some pages don't have them at all. Some have them but only as embedded code & might not be right, like here: https://twitter.com/dannysullivan/status/963882801723359232 Some have multiple dates like here: https://twitter.com/dannysullivan/status/963918603409006592 -- it's an issue we'll look at more

https://twitter.com/dannysullivan/status/963935332486885376

Another discussion from 2016

https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/90817/why-does-google-com-search-results-show-a-newly-published-post-as-2-days-old

2017 someone from politico is asking about this issue

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43661314/time-is-displayed-wrong-is-google-search-for-politico-stories

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My own belief on this is that there is no proof and very weak evidence of the claims being made.

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