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Polymarket Bans Accounts After Threats Against Israeli Journalist
Emanuel Fabian faced escalating death threats from bettors wagering over $14 million on Polymarket who pressured him to alter his missile strike report to influence bet outcomes.
- On March 15, Emanuel Fabian, military correspondent for The Times of Israel, said he received death threats referencing his home and family with specific details, prompting police to investigate.
- The March 10 Polymarket wager held nearly $16 million, motivating bettors to seek a reclassification since intercepted missiles are excluded from a 'Yes' resolution.
- Daniel sent Fabian several more emails over the next couple of days demanding a correction, and the tone continued to grow more urgent; Fabian first received an email from Aviv, then saw fabricated emails, offers of winnings, and colleague-based persuasion attempts.
- Police are investigating threats after Fabian said 'You have exactly half an hour to correct your attempt at influence, Haim wrote,' raising safety concerns. Sen. Chris Murphy called it a serious example prompting calls to curb prediction markets.
- This episode adds to ongoing scrutiny of prediction markets as Public Citizen alerted the Commodity Futures Trading Commission earlier this month about suspicious bets on Polymarket and Kalshi.
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War correspondents don’t just have to worry about bombs or stray bullets. Now they’re also facing new threats coming from players on prediction platforms. Emanuel Fabian, a journalist from The Times of Israel reporting on the Washington and Tel Aviv war against Iran, has denounced threats and harassment from users of the Polymarket betting platform for information he wrote last week about Iranian missiles. Continue reading
Polymarket let people bet on when Iran would strike Israel. A journalist who covered the war got death threats.
Raghed Waked/Reuters; Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe prediction market Polymarket has few guardrails on what people can bet on.An Israeli journalist said Polymarket users tried to bribe and threaten him into changing a story.The $9 billion company condemned the threats and said it removed accounts linked to them.An Israeli journalist said Polymarket users tried to bribe him and threatened to kill him after he reported that an Iranian…
A $14M Polymarket bet came down to one journalist's report, but the losing side tracked down his parents' address to force a correction
An Israeli journalist was hit with death threats and harassment from gamblers who lost millions on a Polymarket prediction market bet. The gamblers wanted him to change his reporting on an Iranian missile strike in Israel. The journalist, Emanuel Fabian, shared what happened to him publicly. Fabian’s trouble started after he reported that an Iranian ballistic missile hit the city of Beit Shemesh on March 10. The missile landed in an open area an…
Journalist reveals he received death threats from gamblers betting on Iran war, pressuring him to alter report
Times of Israel reporter Emanuel Fabian revealed he received death threats from gamblers demanding he change his Iranian missile strike reporting due to a Polymarket bet on a strike.
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