Inside Polymarket's Fake-Win Machine: The Boy Who Scammed You

Thousands of people watched college kids get rich on Polymarket. They cheered $100,000 wins on bets that a president would say a particular word. There was just one problem: none of the bets were real. This week we get into how the world's largest prediction market quietly paid creators to fake their trades on near-perfect copies of its own website, staged roughly $900,000 in fake winnings, and aimed the whole thing at the American users it's legally banned from serving. Plus: the offshore "clipping" army that pushed it past 140 million views, the first federal insider-trading case on a prediction market, and the Trump family's fingerprints all over the industry. Based on a Wall Street Journal investigation and a lot of court filings. Sources and corrections in the comments. It's called The Interesting Show for a reason.