MARKETSSTORY 570· JUNE 22, 2026

Polymarket Paid Creators to Film Fake Winning Bets, Wall Street Journal Investigation Finds

Prediction-market platform Polymarket secretly paid dozens of social media creators to record videos of themselves placing and winning bets that never happened, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation published Saturday. The…

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