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This trend significantly affects investor behavior and information disparity. For instance, social media can lead to the phenomenon of \u201cmeme stocks,\" in which stock prices rapidly rise and fall. Despite increasing interest in meme stocks, few studies have focused on the information disparity. In this study, we model meme stocks focusing on investors who are influenced by social network information, leading to information spread. We combine the Susceptible-Infectious-Recovered (SIR) model with a network model in an artificial market simulation to examine information disparity among individual investors. Our findings show that conventional investors generally profit, whereas social media investors incur losses. Additionally, the profits of social media investors are heavily affected by their network structure and their network distance from the information source. 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