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i kind of think almost every part of the current social media environment primed people for gambling tbh— loot boxes, algo-powered feeds, random, unknowable virality happening to average people.

New: We found out how much money Nick Fuentes makes from "superchats": $900,000 since the start of Trump's second term. Here's the story of Kristine in Ohio, a food-truck operator who became his most frequent donor, despite not making much money herself: wapo.st/4mERkhv

so good!

The Opportunity for Forbes The current reliance on traffic and clicks as a measure of impact is becoming obsolete. The media industry is embracing audience engagement and loyalty as the new standards for success. ForbesPredict will enable Forbes to focus on true audience loyalty - making Forbes a daily destination for its audience to share their expectations for the future. “AI is fundamentally changing how people access information, and that shift is already starkly visible in publisher's traffic,” said Nina Gould, Chief Innovation Officer at Forbes. “Our response isn’t to chase scale, but to deepen engagement. ForbesPredict gives our audience a reason to return, participate and invest their thinking — not just consume headlines.”

Forbes positions its betting platform as a form of “audience engagement and loyalty.” Also explicitly calls out declining web traffic. I have 1000 questions. (from January)

For some in the prediction market space, the only value of news is that it can help bettors make more accurate wagers. With all the media companies partnering with Polymarket and Kalshi, it was only a matter of time before news orgs decided to just cut out the middleman.

Viral posts claiming to spot insider trading on prediction markets don’t have to be real to be valuable — which may explain why influencers are getting paid to post about them.

Read more from @miasato.bsky.social: buff.ly/uvAZtA6

I’m sorry he got so blackout drunk they had to ask for SWAT door busting equipment?!

Not sure yet 🫥 Can’t imagine how you feel today after the story!

Some news outlets see their existing rules around conflicts of interest as covering activity on prediction markets. The Verge’s ethics statement states: “We do not allow reporters to cover people or companies where they have a personal conflict.” “Right now my read is that the current ethics policy prevents conflicts of interest, which cover gambling on news,” The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel says. “But if we need to write a tighter policy specifically for prediction markets we’ll keep an eye on things and do that without hesitation.”

Some outlets have cut deals with Polymarket or Kalshi while restricting how staff (editorial and business side) can use prediction market platforms. FYI here's @theverge.com's stance.

ProPublica’s policy allows for some gambling: an office Oscars ballot, for example, or sports betting, where legal. Sorbara reasons that because the outlet doesn’t really cover sporting event outcomes, sports gambling didn’t pose much of a concern. The exception would be if a reporter was working on something like a story about the NFL or another sports league, at which point tighter restrictions might kick in. A reporter who worked on a 2021 story about NBA owners avoiding taxes, for example, would have been barred from betting on basketball games. The bulk of trading volume on Kalshi is on sports, but prediction markets complicate what is a “news event” and what isn’t. I asked Sorbara whether a ProPublica employee would be allowed to wager on peripheral markets related to the Super Bowl — who will be in the crowd, or who will perform. “‘Will someone perform at an event’ could be informed by thousands of different calculations. It could be [that] there’s an ideological issue: ‘I’m not going to perform at this event because this organization supports X,’ or ‘This league has taken Y positions in the past,’” Sorbara says. “All of a sudden that starts smelling like a news story to me. If someone [on staff] asked me, I would tell them to not [bet on] that.”

Things get weird when you try to define what exactly is "news." I asked ProPublica about their new policy around prediction markets — is betting on who will win the Super Bowl allowed? What about who will perform?

Betting on the news raises ethical questions for journalists ProPublica now has a policy explicitly mentioning prediction markets.

New from me: Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi put a dollar amount on information journalists are privy to. I asked a bunch of news outlets how they're handling the rise of prediction markets, where users gamble on the news.

Gift link: www.theverge.com/report/91415...

Have not been back to an MSG-owned venue since I published this but I have joked that I am probably also banned now (along with now maybe everyone at Conde Nast? lmao)

This is nuts, including MSG’s legal threats against Wired. When I wrote about a fan banned by MSG surveillance, flaks tried to circumvent The Verge’s on-background policy. When I noted they declined to speak on the record, they sent me some…. truly wild emails.
www.theverge.com/news/637228/...

This was kind of what it was like watching Starbucks and Bella Hadid launch NFTs, except the US economy wasn't propped up by it

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Julian Casablancas at Coachella in a Shirt with the Amazon Prime logo but it says crime

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julian casablancas asking the strokes coachella crowd if they’re excited for the military draft.. i do have to hand it to him this one time

would LOVE to know these details….

@mayor.nyc.gov DO SOMETHING😭

I saw a rat inside LaGuardia airport today :( by the kids play area :(

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