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The WSJ said that it analyzed 1,100 videos about Polymarket and also viewed instructional materials that the company provided to creators. Many of those videos were reportedly filmed on 'near-perfect copies' of the Polymarket website, while featuring trades and winnings that were not real. The creator videos were then amplified by a 'social-media army' deployed by a marketing contractor. The WSJ said the company also told those creators not to specify that they'd been paid by Polymarket, although the creators started adding '@polymarket partner' to their bios after journalists began asking questions. Razeen Khan, a college student and creator who worked with Polymarket until March, compared the practice to commercials that make fast food look more appealing than it is in real life: 'We're depicting what actually happens.' Get an inside look at what it takes to scale and succeed from leaders at Mach Industries, Founders Fund, and Shinkei Systems. Through candid fireside chats and high-impact networking, you'll walk away with valuable insights and new connections....

For several months last year, a Ukrainian housewife, 35 and lonely in a marriage that had gone cold, traded WhatsApp messages with a Chechen commander, Achmad, stationed somewhere in Ukraine's occupied south. They wrote about their days, their disappointments, what they hoped to do when the war ended. She asked about the front. He told her. One afternoon, he obliged'a photograph taken inside the barracks, of himself and another soldier grinning for the camera. Behind them, pinned to the wall, was a map of the compound showing the unit's position. The housewife did not exist. 'She' was a middle-aged officer named Serhiy working for Ukraine's military-intelligence directorate, part of a concerted effort to draw secrets from the men sent to occupy his country. 'Serhiy was great at flirting,' his commander told me. 'Guys in our team started asking him for dating advice.' Shortly after Achmad sent that photograph, the coordinates it revealed were struck by a Ukrainian drone. Ukraine's resistance is alive and more lethal than ever. But it has changed dramatically since its early days. A man I will call Dmytro (he requested anonymity for reasons of safety) has served with a resistance team inside occupied Kherson from the first days of the full-scale invasion. 'We took insane risks then,' he told me. 'Nobody thought the Russians would be here long.' Partisan cells sprang up organically'people who knew one another, sometimes ex-military, improvising as they went. Symbolic acts of resistance happened daily. Ukrainians flew their flag and blared patriotic songs in public. The image of a grandmother pressing sunflower seeds into a Russian paratrooper's hand''so that sunflowers grow here when you die''traveled around the world....

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