| ▲ | tantalor 2 hours ago |
| The linked article is pretty interesting: > found a pattern of [Polymarket] sharing false and misleading information https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/technology/polymarket-soc... They don't have much to say about Kalshi other than "unlike real mainstream journalism, there’s no accountability". Which isn't saying much, because nobody is claiming prediction markets are a type of journalism. |
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| ▲ | Alex3917 an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| > nobody is claiming prediction markets are a type of journalism. James Surowiecki wrote an entire book essentially saying otherwise. |
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| ▲ | nateglims 43 minutes ago | parent [-] | | James Surowiecki has been dismissive about these prediction markets actually meeting the criteria for the Wisdom of the Crowds. |
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| ▲ | freejazz 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This website has been full of people that say it's better than journalism, so I don't think you're really capturing the entirety of the dynamic |
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| ▲ | handoflixue 22 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Journalism is one particular way of trying to learn about the world. Academics are another, the scientific method is a third, and so on. Claiming that something is a better way to learn about the world is NOT the same as claiming it is using a specific method, or part of a specific tradition. |
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| ▲ | consensus1 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| And I hope nobody is claiming that mainstream journalism has any accountability |
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| ▲ | jmull 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I do. I’m open to being convinced, but if you’re claiming mainstream media has no accountability, I think you need to substantiate that. I realize there are information bubbles on the internet where this is accepted as truth, but unexamined. Nonsense is everywhere on the internet. I’d be curious how you’d substantiate this. | |
| ▲ | nekooooo 8 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | i'm guessing that by your definition almost nothing has any accountability |
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