Why Insider Betting Is So Widespread

This week we’re taking another look at prediction markets and a new series of scandals. Is Congress finally ready to rein them in? Then, the journalist Joanna Stern returns to the show to discuss her new book “I Am Not A Robot,” all about turning her life over to a chatbot for a year. And finally, Hard Fork’s Rachel Cohn reports back on her month attending classes at the Strother School of Radical Attention, the center of a movement to resist the commodification of attention by technology companies.

Guests: 

• Joanna Stern, chief everything officer at New Things
• Rachel Cohn, producer of “Hard Fork”

Additional Reading:

• Soldier Used Classified Information to Bet on Maduro’s Ouster, U.S. Says
• Soldier Pleads Not Guilty in $400,000 Betting Case Over Maduro’s Ouster
• French weather service alerts police to tampering after suspicious Polymarket bets
• The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Battle for Your Attention Is Built on a Lie

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