Meta Couldn't Buy Kalshi, So It Built a Knockoff to Starve It
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The chips are fake. The siphon is not.
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Column metadata
- Published
- Pen name
- Hector Rentier
- Primary entities
- Meta, Kalshi, Mark Zuckerberg, Tarek Mansour, Polymarket, Tim Wu
- Themes
- Prediction markets, Competition, Acquisitions, Antitrust, Tech regulation
- Floor values engaged
- Accountability of power, Informed citizenship