Polymarket reportedly paid creators to post deceptive videos about fake bets

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Source: techcrunch.com · Section: business-tech · Bias: Center · Published: Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:35:00 GMT

Many of those videos were reportedly filmed on “near-perfect copies” of the Polymarket website, while featuring trades and winnings that were not real.