Polymarket users threaten reporter to change Iran strike story

Prediction markets platform Polymarket says it has banned and reported users who pressured an Israeli journalist with death threats to amend a report about an Iranian missile strike that became the subject of a $17 million prediction market. Emanuel Fabian wrote that he began receiving messages asking him to change his article about a missile that struck outside Beit Shemesh on March 10.

The market allowed bets on the date Iran would strike Israel, with over $17 million wagered on March 10, and its rules say a strike will not count if missiles or drones are intercepted even if they land in Israel. Fabian said he received emails, messages and calls demanding the story be altered to say the strike was a missile fragment, and that one person fabricated a message to make it appear he agreed the missile was intercepted.

Israel, Beit Shemesh

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