Prediction markets want to be the news
Decoder with Nilay Patel
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.2 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 1:43.0 | Hello and welcome to Decoder. |
| 1:44.2 | I'm Nealai Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas and other problems. |
| 1:49.0 | Today, let's talk about prediction markets, which continue to insert themselves into the news cycle and the news in increasingly weird, unsettling, and potentially illegal ways. |
| 1:59.0 | My guest today is Liz Lapato, a senior reporter here at the |
| 2:02.0 | Verge who owns what we cheerfully call the chaos beat. Liz has been writing a lot about prediction |
| 2:07.0 | markets lately, and especially why they all seem so intent on being perceived as sources of news, |
| 2:13.0 | a position which directly incentivizes insider trading, which in turn creates a long list of very predictable problems. |
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