• Deacon@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Given all the entanglements of all the big players, I genuinely wonder how much polymarket is predicting vs influencing events

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      17 hours ago

      This was my takeaway from the article as well. Before the death threat, how many asks did the reporter get to change their reporting? How easy is out to cut someone in by promising $5K of they change just one little word? Who would it harm?

      It seriously gave me dystopian hellscape vibes.