We Need to Kick Prediction Market Betting Out of Journalism While We Still Can ^80.1%

The Intercept - By Jonathan Reiss - 4/28/2026, 9:52 AM

Negativity Bias 56.1% - Framing Effect 25.8% - Availability Heuristic 18.4%

Every time you turn around recently, it feels like there's new reporting about insiders cashing in on prediction markets. On Thursday, a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier who was involved in the raid to capture Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela was arrested on charges that he used classified information to make more than $400,000 by betting on... more