{"id":618006,"date":"2026-06-22T14:40:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=825109"},"modified":"2026-06-22T14:40:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:40:49","slug":"polymarket-staged-900k-in-fake-winnings-to-court-banned-us-users-wsj-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/polymarket-staged-900k-in-fake-winnings-to-court-banned-us-users-wsj-finds-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Polymarket Staged 900K in Fake Winnings to Court Banned US Users WSJ finds\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>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, and [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/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, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":618007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-618006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}