{"id":872145,"date":"2026-10-05T23:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872145\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T23:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:38:10","slug":"prediction-markets-on-elections-are-surging-and-could-influence-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872145\/","title":{"rendered":"Prediction markets on elections are surging and could influence outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are growing, and wagers on politics and the midterms are surging on these platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here &amp; Now&#8217;s Scott Tong talks with <a href=\"https:\/\/acdatacollective.org\/blog\/author\/michael-hornsby\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Hornsby<\/a>, co-director of the Anti-Corruption Data Collective, about problems with insider trading, other corruption, interpreting markets as political polls, and how this could influence elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This segment aired on October 5, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are growing, and wagers on politics and the midterms are surging on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[28,112],"class_list":["post-872145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}