Polymarket Paid at Least $350K to Influencers, Report Says
The payments reached more than 800 creators, and at least 20 later promoted Polymarket on X without clear paid-disclosure labels.
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If you only have a few seconds, read these lines: An analysis by Factchequeado shows that, in social network X, the company of predictive markets Polymarket funds publications that divulge narratives in favor of right-wing politicians in Latin America. Most paid viral publications detected are from accounts based in the United States that disclose narratives in favor of Colombian presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella. Other paid public…
How paid influencers hype Polymarket's odds
Influencers hyped Polymarket's ability to predict events without disclosing they were paid.Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesPolymarket paid high-profile influencers hundreds of thousands to promote its prediction market.Those influencers, however, never disclosed that they were being paid.Polymarket CMO Matthew Modabber paid the creators using a personal PayPal account, POLITICO found.When far-right infl…
Polymarket CMO’s $2.5M PayPal Trail Raises Influencer Disclosure Questions
Polymarket is facing fresh scrutiny after a Politico investigation tied Chief Marketing Officer Matthew Modabber to more than $2.5 million in PayPal transfers sent from a personal account between January 2025 and February 2026. The payments reportedly reached more than 800 recipients. At least $350,000 went to content creators, with 20 influencers later posting about Polymarket more than 490 times on X without clear paid-promotion disclosures. T…
Polymarket allegedly paid influencers at least $350,000 for undisclosed promotions: report
Polymarket has paid at least $350,000 to social media influencers over a 14-month period, with many of those creators later promoting the prediction market platform on X without clearly disclosing a paid relationship, according to a POLITICO investigation based on…
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