{"id":71436,"date":"2026-04-11T06:57:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/abhorrent-the-inside-story-of-the-polymarket-gamblers-betting-millions-on-war\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T06:57:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:57:41","slug":"abhorrent-the-inside-story-of-the-polymarket-gamblers-betting-millions-on-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/abhorrent-the-inside-story-of-the-polymarket-gamblers-betting-millions-on-war\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Abhorrent\u2019: the inside story of the Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Guardian investigation reveals how the prediction market can shape news \u2013 and how it rules on \u2018the truth\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHorekunden\u201d was rapidly losing patience.<\/p>\n<p>His frustration was with the Institute for the Study of War, a US thinktank which produces a daily map of the frontline in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/11\/polymarket-gamblers-betting-iran-war-ukraine-news-truth\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Guardian investigation reveals how the prediction market can shape news \u2013 and how it rules on \u2018the truth\u2019 \u201cHorekunden\u201d was rapidly losing patience. His frustration was with the Institute for the Study of War, a US thinktank which produces a daily map of the frontline in Ukraine. Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}