Polymarket pulls creator sponsorships over LA mayoral election fraud claims
Polymarket is ending sponsorships for some creators after posts tied to them questioned the results of the Los Angeles mayoral election without evidence. The move came after content creator Nick Shirley on Monday shared a post calling the election into question and misunderstanding how the platform's odds work. Polymarket told NPR it was pulling the sponsorships and told Popular Information that the election conspiracy posts violated its marketing guidelines. The posts had claimed, without evidence, that the election was rigged against Republican reality TV star Spencer Pratt. The episode adds to the platform's ongoing reputational management challenges around political content and how its markets are publicly interpreted.
Polymarket must now enforce its marketing guidelines consistently across hundreds of paid creators or risk CFTC scrutiny that its influencer program distorts election-contract prices. Each sponsorship reversal that follows public pressure weakens the platform's claim of proactive market-integrity controls.
Polymarket and Kalshi boost then retract LA election fraud influencer posts, in the latest case of prediction-market platforms reversing paid promoter activity that threatened election-integrity credibility.