Polymarket's viral videos showed people winning big, but the bets were fake
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根据《华尔街日报》调查，预测市场平台Polymarket为吸引用户，付费让数十名社交媒体用户拍摄虚假下注视频，并制作近乎完美的网站副本进行模拟交易，同时隐瞒付费事实。报道指出，一名大学生发布的赢得10万美元赌注的视频被证实为虚假，相关交易数据并不存在。
Polymarket paid dozens of social media users to film themselves making fake bets for a promotion that aimed to convince people they can strike it rich on the prediction market, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation published on Saturday.
"In its push to draw users to its unregulated platform, Polymarket has flooded social media with videos like [George] Makihara’s, which appear genuine at first glance," the article said. "In reality, Polymarket built near-perfect copies of its website, then instructed creators to make simulated trades on those dummy sites and hide that they were being paid by Polymarket."
Makihara, a college student, posted a video in January "that showed him winning $100,000 on a wager that President Trump would publicly say the word 'McDonald's' that month." But trade data showed that no one on Polymarket won such a bet in January, according to the Journal. This was one of 145 bets that Makihara appeared to place on Polymarket between January and May, but all of those bets were fake, the article said.
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