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Taylor Lorenz

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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech

And I think it's affecting our physical world in increasingly notable ways.

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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech

I will say when I was writing this story, I was like, I wish I was Kyle Chayka writing this story.

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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech

He would have smarter things.

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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech

I still can't find the words to describe this phenomenon.

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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech

OK, thanks.

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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech

Well, the disinformation as gig work, I think I took from a tweet.

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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech

So let's not credit me too hard.

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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech

So that's OK.

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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech

But I think that it's really concerning because like for me, obviously, all of this stuff is dystopian and warping our world.

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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech

But literally in the launch video, in the first few seconds of the launch video and then throughout the launch video,

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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech

PumpFundGo shows this market being used for political purposes and they show people they say you can get paid to protest.

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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech

They show people being paid to put up flyers to vote for someone.

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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech

And already right now, you can get paid to deny the results of the South Korean election on PumpFundGo.

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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech

because there's a meme coin tied to election disinformation.

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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech

And I think that that's concerning.

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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech

Again, I think the media has done a great job covering polymarket, but I don't think they've really covered the UGC stuff or some of these secondary markets.

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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech

And like I said, I think this is just like all these growing economic systems need oversight and regulation.

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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech

That's like what UGC, I mean, that's like sort of the core of what UGC marketing is.

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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech

They're incredibly popular.

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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech

I mean, again, these are sort of very highly unregulated financial markets.