Caitlin Ostroff
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 6 Jul
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You know, I think that these platforms, they don't conceive of themselves as gambling.
They conceive of themselves as trading.
This is, you know, in their minds more akin to day trading or, you know, trading in currencies than it is to gambling.
I don't know the answer to this.
That's not something that I have heard about.
What I can say from our own reporting is that both platforms seem intent on recruiting college students.
And Polymarket in particular has set up relationships with college clubs, fraternities, offering them payments in exchange for signing their classmates up to the site.
This was a story that I reported with colleagues, including my colleague, Kevin Dugan, back in, I believe it was March.
It was about both platforms' efforts to sign up college students.
And some great reporting that Kevin brought to the story was about PolyMarket's efforts to recruit students at Columbia University.
And they
signed this partnership with a fraternity at Columbia.
And in exchange for every student that members of that fraternity signed up, the fraternity got some money.
And at the end of it, there was a big sort of polymarket funded party.
The fraternity got a plaque that said, you know, that they were the first
member of the Polymarket Pledge class, and a lawsuit that was filed last week made similar allegations pertaining to Polymarket's activities on other campuses.
Kelshi had some much smaller, much less well-funded partnerships with campus groups.
I would say Polymarket is the prime mover in that space when it comes to recruiting college students.
Yeah, so the Federal Trade Commission, which governs advertising, does have rules that require that advertisements be truthful and accurate.
And then the CFTC also requires that, you know, marketing and that information not be deceptive.
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