Bobby Allen
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over trades on prediction markets, which have seen massive growth in Trump's second term.
is an investor and advisor to Polymarket.
Kalshi fined a Texas House candidate, a Minnesota state senator, and a candidate for a U.S.
The sites say all three placed bets on their own political campaigns, which violates Kalshi's rules against insider trading.
The enforcement actions were announced as state and federal lawmakers vowed to crack down on political insiders profiting off of insider information.
Billions of dollars are traded every week on Kalshi and PolyMarket,
The prediction market sites say they self-police for abuse.
Observers of the industry fear foreign actors or campaign insiders could try to use the midterm elections as an opportunity to manipulate the markets or turn internal data into profit.
Meta told employees new logging software will record keystrokes, mouse movements, and even take snapshots of employees' screens.
Meta made the announcement to its 78,000 employees in an internal memo that was reviewed by NPR.
In response to employees' concerns, Meta leadership wrote in another internal message, "...the model will not be able to memorize any of the screen content it sees, adding that all the data will be disconnected from employee names."
Meta is ramping up AI across its workforce, just as it plans to lay off about 10% of its staff next month.
The new surveillance will not apply to employees in Europe, where the practice would violate data privacy laws.