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Polymarket and Kalshi are paying influencers up to $500 per post to spread the word about prediction markets, where people can bet on everything from the color of President Trump's tie, to war, to election outcomes.
In recent weeks, some of those paid influencers have been spreading fabrications about the Los Angeles mayor's race, claiming, without evidence, that the process has been beset with fraud.
After NPR pointed this out to Kalshi, the company asked influencers to take down posts.
Polymarket never responded to a request for comment.
Misinformation experts say it's a preview of what's to come ahead of the midterms.
Fears also persist about the markets themselves, which can be manipulated by bad actors or betters aligned with one candidate.
District Judge Kathleen Williams in Florida has ordered Trump's lawyers to respond to the former federal judges who claim the lawsuit that led to the fund is, quote, a fraud on the court.
Trump sued the IRS over the leaking of his taxes.
The case settled with a nearly $1.8 billion fund for those who claim to be victims of political persecutions.
The problem, according to the former judges, is that Trump is both the plaintiff and the defendant.
Trump filed a lawsuit as president, and he is the leader of the executive branch overseeing the IRS.
The former judges wrote that the lawsuit was an example of collusion and asked the court to investigate whether it had been deceived.
Williams says she is, quote, empowered to investigate serious misconduct.
A North Carolina grand jury charged Comey last month with threatening President Trump based on an Instagram post of seashells spelling out 8647.
86 is slang for getting rid of something.
The indictment said the image was, quote, a serious expression of an intent to do harm to the president.