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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 company built near-perfect replica websites, had creators simulate trades on those dummy sites, and instructed them to conceal that Polymarket was behind the campaign — all in an effort to drive new users to its unregulated platform.
What the Scheme Looked Like The mechanics mattered as much as the deception. Polymarket did not simply pay influencers to say nice things about the platform.
Instead, it constructed convincing copies of its own website, then choreographed trades on those fakes so that the resulting videos would appear, at first glance, to show real money moving.
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