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Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off

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Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 days ago

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Polymarket paid at least 10 influencers over the past several months to post videos in which they pretended to win hundreds...

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Wow yeah that actually sounds quite illegal

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