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Lawmakers Call for Federal Probe of Polymarket Over Deceptive Advertising

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By Katherine Long Verified, Neil Mehta, Caitlin Ostroff Verified
| The Wall Street Journal Verified
Two senators are calling for a federal investigation into Polymarket’s social-media promotion of fake bets following The Wall Street Journal’s reporting on the prediction market’s deceptive marketing practices.
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We Investigated Polymarket’s Deceptive Marketing Campaign. Here’s What We Found.

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By Brenna Smith Verified, Caitlin Ostroff Verified, Neil Mehta, Katherine Long Verified
| Yahoo Finance Verified
Polymarket has been banned from letting U.S. users trade on its website since 2022. But the company is waging a secret campaign for Americans' attention on social media, paying creators to film trades on fake websites and hiring overseas workers to make the videos go viral in the U.S., a Wall Street Journal investigation found.
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They Looked Like They Were Getting Rich on Polymarket—but None of It Was Real

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By Katherine Long Verified, Caitlin Ostroff Verified, Neil Mehta, Brenna Smith Verified, Audrey Valbuena, Drew An-Pham
| The Wall Street Journal Verified
In his videos, George Makihara appears to have a lucrative side hustle making bets on Polymarket. In January, the college student posted a video that showed him winning $100,000 on a wager that President Trump would publicly say the word “McDonald’s” that month. The bet was one of 145 that Makihara appeared to place on Polymarket’s website between January and mid-May, based on his videos—bets adding up to almost $410,000.
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