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Kalshi CEO admits enlisting influencers to dis Polymarket in a now-deleted podcast segment


Kalshi’s CEO, Tarek Mansour, confirmed on a podcast interview that his employees did ask social media influencers to promote memes about the FBI’s raid on

Both of these companies offer competing events-betting markets, a new kind of betting industry where people wager about the outcomes of events ranging from elections to popular culture. The FBI raided the home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan last month, and, it turns out, Kalshi did try to capitalize on its rival’s misfortunes by asking influencers to post memes about it, Mansour said. Pirates Wires, a media outlet founded by Mike Solana, reported that Kalshi employees were paying influences to post content suggesting that Polymarket and its CEO Shayne Coplan were engaging in illegal activities.

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