Taylor Lorenz
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And I think it's affecting our physical world in increasingly notable ways.
I will say when I was writing this story, I was like, I wish I was Kyle Chayka writing this story.
He would have smarter things.
I still can't find the words to describe this phenomenon.
OK, thanks.
Well, the disinformation as gig work, I think I took from a tweet.
So let's not credit me too hard.
So that's OK.
But I think that it's really concerning because like for me, obviously, all of this stuff is dystopian and warping our world.
But literally in the launch video, in the first few seconds of the launch video and then throughout the launch video,
PumpFundGo shows this market being used for political purposes and they show people they say you can get paid to protest.
They show people being paid to put up flyers to vote for someone.
And already right now, you can get paid to deny the results of the South Korean election on PumpFundGo.
because there's a meme coin tied to election disinformation.
And I think that that's concerning.
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.
And like I said, I think this is just like all these growing economic systems need oversight and regulation.
That's like what UGC, I mean, that's like sort of the core of what UGC marketing is.
They're incredibly popular.
I mean, again, these are sort of very highly unregulated financial markets.