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    Google employee charged with using inside information to make $1 million on Polymarket

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    1. Varibash on

      Funny how this employee is getting charged but there is clearly people inside the Whitehouse doing the same thing.

    2. A_Pointy_Rock on

      Are you saying that somebody would dare undermine the sanctity of this gambling platform – er – *prediction* platform?

      I am shocked. Shocked!

    3. SpookiestSzn on

      This seems so dumb because it’s literally the point of the platform that insiders can trade but God forbid a motherfucker hustle

    5. WhoSaidWhatNow2026 on

      Everyone needs to stop mindlessly regurgitating the marketing these platforms are using and just call them what they are. They are gambling sites. Every time I see someone write “prediction market” I can’t help but think the person is stupid.

    6. almo2001 on

      I thought that was the whole idea of polymarket: use the efficient markets theory to uncover information.

    7. KenTitan on

      I don’t understand – what’s the charge? it’s exactly what the site is intended to do, make prop bets.

    9. ErgoMachina on

      If a pleb does it, the pleb gets charged with a felony.

      If a billonare, or government does it, it’s a normal Tuesday.

      I don’t know exactly at which modern society broke, but it’s definitely broken.

    10. Aust1mh on

      Sorry, only politicians are ‘allowed’ to do that. Military and normal people don’t get life long pardons and exceptions to laws… you go to prison

    11. thinkmatt on

      He used an internal marketing tool available to everyone at Google. Anyone employed there would know the outcome before everyone else. He’s just the one person that got caught. You have to assume that every market has insiders that is impossible to police, and Polymarket just shouldn’t exist

    14. Itachi_Uchiha0515 on

      Really tired of this two tiered justice system. Why isn’t Don Jr being put in prison for his insider bets?

    15. overthemountain on

      >He correctly bet — using an account under the name AlphaRaccoon — that Google’s most-searched person in 2025 would be the singer known as D4vd, according to the complaint. At the time he placed that bet, the prediction market Polymarket “assigned a near-zero probability to d4vd being ‘the #1 searched person on Google this year,'” the complaint said.

      I see the problem here. Polymarket was looking at making a ton of money off of this since basically no one had it right and then this nerd had to go and ruin it for them.

    18. Bubbly-Two-3449 on

      They’re going after the small timers without power. To give an air of legitimacy.

      They won’t touch the whales though.

    22. PermanentUsername101 on

      What an idiot betting and winning $1.2 million and thinking nobody would look into that. Reminds me of the joke.

      A kid walks into a barbershop, and the barber says, “Watch this kid. He’s the dumbest kid in the world.”

      The barber pulls out a dollar bill in one hand and a quarter in the other and says to the kid, “Which one do you want?”

      The kid takes the quarter and walks away.

      The barber laughs and says, “See? Told you.”

      Later, the customer sees the kid outside eating ice cream and says, “Hey buddy, why did you take the quarter? The dollar is worth more.”

      The kid smiles and says, “Because the day I take the dollar, the game is over.”

    23. x0ppressedx on

      This is laughable. Practically every single person in all 3 of branches of government are illegally profiting off insider info. And they go after this guy with the garbage media they own putting out an article like this making this guy look like the worst scum on earth.

    27. gill_smoke on

      Whoa there, I thought insider trading was legal now. I mean look at Crongress and the White house