Kalshi and Polymarket direct affiliates to remove election misinformation posts
Prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket directed paid affiliates to remove sponsored content that questioned the integrity or accuracy of official election results and legal rulings, per reports emerging Monday, June 8 and Tuesday, June 9. Kalshi tightened rules for its paid creator program to bar affiliates from casting doubt on market outcomes, a move that followed a crackdown on affiliates spreading misinformation about California's election. Both platforms threatened to cut sponsorship deals with creators who denied election results. The enforcement actions come as prediction market operators face heightened scrutiny over paid promoters' influence on public discourse. Polymarket had not responded to requests for comment as of the reporting.
Kalshi and Polymarket must now demonstrate that self-policing of affiliate marketing satisfies CFTC market-integrity standards, or risk the agency treating promotional surveillance gaps as enforceable violations during its ongoing oversight of political event contracts.
Extends a four-day pattern of Kalshi and Polymarket enforcement actions around political market integrity, joining prior coverage of boosted LA election fraud posts, Google engineer insider trading, George Santos referrals, and midterm insider-trading warnings.