{"id":924214,"date":"2026-08-02T02:13:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/02\/polymarket-staged-900k-in-fake-winnings-to-court-banned-us-users-wsj-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T02:13:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:13:25","slug":"polymarket-staged-900k-in-fake-winnings-to-court-banned-us-users-wsj-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/02\/polymarket-staged-900k-in-fake-winnings-to-court-banned-us-users-wsj-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Polymarket Staged $900K in Fake Winnings to Court Banned US Users, WSJ Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polymarket paid a network of social-media creators to stage bets and winnings on near-perfect replicas of its website, a Wall Street Journal investigation found. This was part of a campaign aimed at U.S. users; the platform is legally barred from serving. Bets that never happened Polymarket paid mostly college-age social-media creators to stage bets&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/polymarket-staged-900k-in-fake-winnings-to-court-banned-us-users-wsj-finds\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Luci Kelemen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polymarket paid a network of social-media creators to stage bets and winnings on near-perfect replicas of its website, a Wall Street Journal investigation found. This was part of a campaign aimed at U.S. users; the platform is legally barred from serving. Bets that never happened Polymarket paid mostly college-age social-media creators to stage bets&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":924215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138740,192,2280],"tags":[139479,11407],"class_list":["post-924214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-polymarket","category-sports","category-staged","tag-polymarket","tag-staged"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}