Polymarket pays content creators as little as $25 to influence the US midterms through social media videos disguised as ordinary posts.
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Badlands MediaOct 21, 2026
The passage attributes the claim to 'political groups' paying creators as little as $25, and the extraction changed the payer to Polymarket, which the passage does not say, so the claim departs from the passage. The sources do document Polymarket paying influencers without disclosure, but none mentions a $25 payment or confirms the $25 figure.
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What was said
… You can trade $10 and get free $25, so $10 to get $25. So check it out. Link is in the description down below. It's also pinned. Now, yeah, yesterday, Polymarket said, "Just in: Political groups are reportedly paying content creators as little as $25 to influence the US. Midterms through social media videos disguised as ordinary posts," and my response to that is, uhm, doesn't Polymarket do that advertising? Yeah, yeah, yeah, but, but, so advert so this is an advert. This is a Polymer advertisement, and I'm actually a big fan of the way that they do. …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. POLITICO reported that Polymarket's chief marketing officer Matthew Modabber sent at least $350,000 to about 20 content creators, who posted about Polymarket hundreds of times on X without clearly disclosing paid partnerships.[4][5]
Supports. The NYC Council letter and the Senate letters allege Polymarket paid influencers without disclosure to spread misleading election content, though these are allegations rather than findings.[1][2][3]
Context. The passage itself says 'Political groups are reportedly paying content creators as little as $25'; it names no company, so the extracted claim that Polymarket is the payer adds an actor the post never names.
Context. No source mentions a $25 payment to content creators; the reported payments are larger in aggregate and the $25 figure is not corroborated.[4]
Sources
5 sources: 1 fact-checker, 2 primary, 2 not rated
- 1NYC Council probes Polymarket over alleged predatory marketing practicesreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Warner, Padilla Demand Answers from Prediction Market ...warner.senate.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 3August 26, 2026 Mr. Shayne Coplan ...padilla.senate.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 4How paid influencers hype Polymarket's odds - Business Insiderbusinessinsider.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 5Brazil Orders Election Interference Probe Into Vance Donor Network, Polymarket and Metayahoo.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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