According to Politico, Polymarket’s Chief Marketing Officer Matthew Modabber paid more than 2.5 million USD to over 800 people via his personal PayPal account between January 2025 and February 2026. Among these, around 20 content creators whose identities were verified by Politico published at least 490 Polymarket-related posts after receiving the payments, and did not clearly disclose paid collaborations. Polymarket responded that collaborating with influencers is standard business practice, but did not address issues regarding disclosure policies, personal account payments, or tax filings.

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TheFeelingOfEthInTheSeaBreeze
· 34m ago
Regular business activities? Then what about regular tax filings—can you really dodge the PayPal transaction records?
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GateUser-e62ee1b0
· 9h ago
490 cases with no disclosure, the old problem of influencer economy, platforms pretending to be naive
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MevTeaTime
· 9h ago
Using a personal account to handle transactions is way too reckless; even the tax bureau would shake their heads at it.
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FloatingTeacupClub
· 9h ago
Polymarket this time has basically pushed the PR of prediction markets into a gray area.
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