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Last week, two major news networks, CNN and CNBC, partnered with the so-called prediction

market, Kalshi, an online political betting platform,

to use Kalshi's real-time betting data in TV news segments' online news content,

and, as Kalshie announced on X the Everything app, quote,

to integrate prediction markets into CNN's global newsroom.

With Kalshi threatening, quote,

A New Era of Media is Here. This is, it could happen here. I'm Garrison Davis. Regular CNN viewers

may have noticed this integration has already been happening for some time.

This past election cycle, news anchors used betting odds in place of an addition to polling

data to weigh the likelihood of candidates winning elections.

CNN's chief data analyst Harry Enton, a Nate Silver protege who used to work for 538, trailblazed the

use of political gambling data in news stories earlier this year. Kalshi praised Enten by name in their

announcement of the CNN partnership, quote, Enten is an expert at translating what data and polling

are saying on any given issue. And through this

integration, he can tap into real-time prediction markets data to better inform and fact-check

his reporting, unquote. Here's an example of this reporting in a CNN segment from October

2025. If you go back six months ago, you go back to April Cape Baldwin. What were we looking at?

Well, we were looking at the Democrats with a very clear shot of taking control of the U.S.

House of Representatives, according to the Kalsh prediction market odds. We saw him in an 83% chance,

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