evidence: Earlier this month, a viral story on the financial news site Finbold reported that Trump Media’s stock (DJT) was "shorted heavily day before assassination attempt." Short selling is a tactic, explained in more detail below, used by investors to profit off a stock’s decline. The story, which has been shared widely across social media, suggests that the allegedly unusual number of shares being sold short "[raise] concerns that some individuals may have had foreknowledge of a plot against former President Trump’s life and sought to profit from the expected turmoil." [...] "The SEC filing which showed that Austin Private Wealth shorted a large number of shares of Trump Media & Technology Group Corp (DJT) was incorrect and we immediately amended it as soon as we learned of the error," the firm wrote in a statement. "No client of APW holds, or has ever held, a put on DJT in the quantity initially reported. The correct holding amount was 12 contracts, or 1,200 shares — not 12 million shares, as was filed in error. In submitting the required report for the second quarter of 2024, a multiplier was applied by a third-party vendor that increased the number of the shares by a multiple of 10,000 for all options contracts (not just DJT)."