Democrat rips Polymarket for taking bets on fate of US pilot shot down over Iran

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) on Friday ripped the prediction platform Polymarket for accepting bets in a since-deleted page on the date a U.S. pilot shot down over Iran will be found.

“They could be your neighbor, a friend, a family member,” Moulton wrote in a post Friday on the social platform X. “And people are betting on whether or not they’ll be saved.” 

“This is DISGUSTING,” he wrote.  

Polymarket has since taken down the poll for not meeting its standards.

“We took this market down immediately as it does not meet our integrity standards,” the company in a statement on X. “It should not have been posted, and we are investigating how this slipped through our internal safeguards.” 

A U.S. fighter jet was shot down over Iran on Friday, the first since the........

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