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It's just going to be Hunter Brooks.

I figure we should talk about it just in case people want to know about it because we do talk about ubiquity a lot.

But the disclaimer on the actual article that we will link from Hunter Brooks is based on Hunter Brooks Media's reporting, Hunter Brooks Capital is short on –

the stock symbol for ubiquity and long a basket of comparable securities at the time of publication so i forget i couldn't look this up by googling or you know i didn't couldn't find this in our history but i believe we have talked in the past about a similar situation maybe it was also hunter brooke

where where it's like some company shorts a stock and if you short a stock you make money if that stock price goes down and you lose potentially unlimited money if the stock price goes up so some company will short a stock and then post a negative story about that company in the hopes to make the stock go down and disclaiming it and saying here's a big negative story about ubiquity and by the way just so you know we make money if the stock price of this company goes down

Which is fine.

Maybe they're shorting it because ubiquity is doing a terrible thing.

It doesn't mean that they're lying to try to make the stock go down.

Maybe they're saying, hey, we're shorting it because we know they're doing a bad thing and we think people will agree with us and that will make the stock go down and then we'll make money.

But the fact that I cannot find a single other source that doesn't eventually lead back to this 100-book media story makes me question this a little bit.

Now, I fully believe... First of all, it's a fact that Russia is using ubiquity stuff, okay?

The question is...

What is Ubiquity doing to stop that?

Are they doing enough?

And again, in the article, you'll see that they have cut off direct sales to them and they banned all Russian IPs and they've done a bunch of other stuff.

But still, the fact remains Russia is getting these products through intermediaries and resellers and Ubiquity is claiming ignorance or whatever.

So I'm not sure what to make of it because I'm not an investigative reporter myself.

on the Russia beat.

But obviously, as we noted before, we do stand with Ukraine.

Russia is terrible.