Updated: 04.04.2026
- Ethical betting on the platform polymarket The issue has been called into question again: users have created a marketplace to find the pilot of the bomber shot down in the skies over Iran.
- The American politician called this attitude towards the fate of his compatriot disgusting.
- He also recalled that Donald Trump Jr. has an account on polymarket and participates in bets.
Representative Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) condemned polymarket for allowing traders to bet on whether a missing American service member would be found after his plane was shot down over Iran.
This is DISGUSTING, – Moulton wrote on social network X.
In response to this in polymarket stated, which closed the contract, adding that it should never have been added to the platform. The company is currently reviewing how the deal passed its internal checks. The platform did not provide further details about the specific rule violated.
It should not have been published and we are investigating how it slipped past our internal controls, they said. polymarket.
Despite this, many are outraged that a rescue operation involving a US service member is being considered a bet. Concerns are also growing about insider trading in prediction markets. In March, it was revealed that a group of traders earned approximately $1 million by correctly betting on the timing of US strikes on Iran, with some placing their trades just hours before the attacks.
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