Top
Best
New

Posted by Vaslo 3 days ago

Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators(www.wsj.com)
465 points | 377 commentspage 4
thenayr 1 day ago|
[dead]
realJared54 1 day ago||
[flagged]
AznHisoka 1 day ago||
Little Bobby Tables. That you?
N_Lens 1 day ago|||
Are you for real-real, Jared? Tell me so!
mvdtnz 1 day ago|||
I honestly can't tell if this is a joke or not.
jcgrillo 1 day ago|||
undefined
maxbond 1 day ago||
JavaScript can be tricky.
BobbyTables2 1 day ago||
[flagged]
trel1100 1 day ago||
[flagged]
polnurfer 1 day ago||
[flagged]
charcircuit 1 day ago||
Every ad is staged like this. The whole point is to make as good of an ad for the product as possible.

Do you think in a food commercial the people eating the product are showing their genuine emotion? It's all acting.

advisedwang 1 day ago||
OK but you know that you're seeing an ad. These are ads that are pretending to be users just posting their experiences.
charcircuit 1 day ago||
Creators are supposed to make it clear that it is add. Usually they add a #ad to their post. But many creators don't understand the rules and don't correctly mark their post as being sponsored.
advisedwang 21 hours ago||
It is reasonable to be mad at polymarket if there is a pattern of their content creators failing to disclose ads.
Zambyte 1 day ago|||
This is like a food commercial where someone shows an extreme reaction to food that isn't the product they're selling, or acting like they're eating something that isn't food at all. There are laws regarding food advertising that require it to present the real food (though the presentation of it is usually way better).
uberex 1 day ago|||
I think ads for addictive things like gambling, alcohol, tobacco need to be held to a very high standard, if allowed at all.
N_Lens 1 day ago||
McDonalds should show people who choked on a Big Mac in their ads /s
RaSoJo 1 day ago||
I blanket consider any post by these "influencers" as paid for.

But my biggest fear is for my kids. I'm doing my best to teach them about the duplicity that exists in this world, and that's precisely why I'm against blanket social media bans for under-16s.

By the time kids turn 17, they've hit the rebel stage. And that's exactly when the freedom to access social media arrives. At that point, they won't listen to parents. They are going to get soo badly burnt.

This is why I advocate for controlled, early access to social media for children. As a parent, I can monitor what they follow and teach them to distinguish right from wrong.

But with these blanket bans, that's taken out of my hands entirely. They grow up sheltered in a picture-perfect world...and then, boom.

onetrickwolf 1 day ago||
Is this paid for by Meta or something?
Dilettante_ 1 day ago||
Yeah, if I don't make my six-year-old drink with me every once in a while, he's never gonn learn to hold his liquour!
cm2187 1 day ago|
I have news for you. That burger is the McDonald's commercial? It's most likely made out of plastic. That happy lottery winner? Probably a stock photo from one of the major visuals providers. And I am ready to bet my bankers don't have this hollywood white teeth looking of banks commercials. Since when is advertising real?
OrangeDelonge 1 day ago||
“The truth is most of what you see in food photographs is real. FTC laws state that whatever you’re selling with a photo must be real in the image. To use a familiar example, if you’re selling corn flakes the flakes must be real. But then it gets interesting. You can use white glue instead of milk in your bowl of flakes because you’re not selling the milk, only the corn flakes.”
wodenokoto 1 day ago|||
While the dressed burgers aren’t exactly edible, they are a far cry from being plastic.

McDonald’s Canada famously gave a candid behind the scenes of dressing a burger:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pbh1UAWLOgU&ra=m

advisedwang 1 day ago||
Yeah, but you know those are ads.