"Our mandate is broad but our scope, as you’ll
read, is less so: focusing primarily on the use of social media as a
tool in support of illegal stock manipulation efforts. The principal
editor of this website is employed by one of the many companies
mentioned in these pages, but is not a shareholder and receives no
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A mandate generally implies acting upon instructions or orders given by others. Who issued the mandate?
Is there any significance that this "mandate" was not revealed until January 13, 2007? (Note that is the same day this ASM article was published and the paragraph above was originally part of that article.)
