$1.9M in Fake Bets Drove Polymarket Hype: WSJ

In brief

• Dozens of mostly college-age creators were paid to film fake bets, and sometimes fake wins, on near-identical copies of the Polymarket website, a Wall Street Journal investigation found.
• A WSJ review of 1,105 videos by 10 creators found that none of roughly $1.9 million in wagers shown were real, including a creator's staged $100,000 "win."
• The campaign targeted U.S. users, who remain…