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Polymarket paid dozens of social media users to film themselves making fake bets for a promotion that aimed to convince people they can strike it rich on the prediction market, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation published on Saturday. “In its push to draw users to its unregulated plat… …
… The WSJ said the company also told those creators not to specify that they’d been paid by Polymarket, although the creators started adding “@polymarket partner” to their bios after journalists began asking questions. …
… Around the same time as the Polymarket post, blockchain monitoring firm PeckShield reported on X that a phishing campaign was targeting Polymarket users. …
… Link: ‘Unbelievable how accurate’: How paid influencers hype Polymarket’s odds | https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/05/polymarket-paid-political-influencers-00932789 | Politico
… Link: Zuckerberg Urges Meta to Explore Working With Polymarket and Kalshi | https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/technology/zuckerberg-meta-polymarket-kalshi.html | The New York Times
… In any event, Kalshi and Polymarket are making money hand over fist. Kalshi was recently valued at $22 billion and Polymarket was recently valued at $15 billion .
… Polymarket declined to comment on the form of payment. Kalshi and Polymarket offer a wide range of politics- and elections-themed markets, and prediction-market odds are increasingly incorporated into media coverage of elections. …
… Polymarket and Kalshi have been aggressively pursuing partnerships with journalists and news outlets, even less reputable ones. It’s unclear how Polymarket ended up in Google News results, or when exactly it started. …
