POLYMARKET PAYS CREATORS FOR DECEPTIVE BET VIDEOS
A Wall Street Journal investigation found that Polymarket, a crypto prediction market platform banned in the US, is paying social media creators to produce misleading videos promoting winning bets to American audiences.
Wall Street Journal: Investigation: Polymarket is paying creators to make deceptive videos about winning bets, targeting…
According to a Wall Street Journal investigation, Polymarket has been paying people to film themselves placing fake bets…
Many of those videos were reportedly filmed on “near-perfect copies” of the Polymarket website, while featuring trades a…
The Wall Street Journal reviewed 1,105 videos along with guidance given to creators for crafting their posts.
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"Winning" bets were made on cloned website and would have lost money, WSJ finds.
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Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/polymarkets-viral-videos-showed-people-winning-big-but-the-bets…
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