{"id":514313,"date":"2026-06-27T22:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/514313\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T22:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:24:09","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-thinks-meta-isnt-doing-enough-to-cater-to-gambling-addicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/514313\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg thinks Meta isn’t doing enough to cater to gambling addicts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is per reporting this week in\u00a0The New York Times<\/a>, which reports that Zuck has been pushing his forces at Meta hard in the production of Arena, a prediction market he hopes to launch into the same space currently addicting dopamine-seekers courtesy of sites like Kalshi and Polymarket. Admittedly, Meta\u2019s version will have one big twist: The current version of the project apparently runs off of meaningless \u201cpoints,\u201d not actual cash. Which suggests that either a) Zuckerberg doesn\u2019t want to get yelled at\/regulated by people who will be angry about him turning Facebook into an actual gambling site, or, b) he\u2019s banking on the fact that people are more addicted to the betting part of prediction markets than the actual \u201cwinning money\u201d portion. What\u2019s that? You\u2019d like to hear that last thought rephrased in some real \u201cwoof, felt that in the pit of our stomachs\u201d corpo-speech from Facebook\u2019s executives? By all means: \u201cWe believe that prediction markets are one of the more interesting new content types. With the right containers, the social conversation is the payoff as people aim to show off how good they are at predicting things to their friends.\u201d You know, like how humans talk!<\/p>\n

In fact, the latest reports suggest Zuckerberg has pushed his staff to try to make contacts and partnerships at both Kalshi and Polymarket, who we\u2019re sure are just thrilled at the idea of this lumbering behemoth trying to horn in on their scams. Prediction markets\u2014which claim that they\u2019re just fun analysis tools that simply happen to resemble fuel for an unquenchable, omnidirectional gambling addiction\u2014are facing increased scrutiny from many legislators and state governments at the moment, although the federal government itself has been very slow to say anything even remotely negative about them, a fact that presumably has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that both\u00a0Kalshi and Polymarket have paid Donald Trump, Jr., to serve as a \u201cstrategic advisers\u201d for them over the last two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is per reporting this week in\u00a0The New York Times, which reports that Zuck has been pushing his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":["post-514313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}