We've been quiet recently because Mark Goodwin and I have been working to write the most comprehensive investigation into Polymarket's origins and ambitions to date.
We found that Polymarket's "official" origin story, that Shayne Coplan founded the company alone in 2020 and then built "the company in his bathroom", is a lie. Polymarket really started years earlier as another company called TokenBnk that was deeply tied to Israeli interests, specifically a crypto company founded by Benjamin Netanyahu's niece and nephew. Coplan has actively tried to obfuscate this company from his story and it's not the only thing either.
In Part 1 of this two-part series, we unravel the real history of Polymarket, directly connecting the company to Peter Thiel's efforts to resurrect controversial DARPA programs from its now defunct Information Awareness Office. Polymarket appears to have been chosen by Thiel and his associates to succeed in resurrecting DARPA's Policy Analysis Market where another Thiel-linked company, Augur, had previously failed.
Stay tuned for Part 2, where we explore the current influence of prediction markets and Polymarket, including how an insidious effort to have prediction markets replace representative democracy as a governance model is already being slowly implemented by the White House.
Read Part 1 here: https://t.co/xTmU5RzoZz
One of the many sick jokes about living in the UK is that we have an incredible amount of regulatory bodies, but almost none of them actually do any regulating.
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The combined wealth at that table is… wait for it…
$485,000,000.00
That’s a few acres of parks, a library, a rehab center, a gym for underprivileged youths… with $435,000,000 left over.
These people are hilariously out of touch.
Just awful to see senior Labour politicians, whose government has helped arm Israel's genocide in Gaza, now expressing sympathy for the victims they played their part in creating.
This is gaslighting.
The amount of insider trading Donald Trump is participating in is staggering. It’s actually almost unfathomable.
Since 2012 Nancy Pelosi has executed 213 trades on individual stocks with a total volume of $270 million dollars.
In Q1 of 2026 Donald Trump executed 3,500+ trades on individual stocks with a total volume of $1.5 billion dollars.
Donald Trump is on pace for 14,000 trades this year.
Nancy Pelosi has averaged 15 trades per year.
"They've silenced her.
"This is an attempt to punish someone who spoke the truth."
The "bizarre" moment @maitlis is forced to ask Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams to leave the studio.
people’s energy bills are 79% higher than when the price crisis started in 2021/22 so of course the sensible thing to do is ditch energy projects in order to buy some bombs 🫠🫠🫠
This is utterly, utterly, outrageous. Lloyds is blocking The Canary from accessing its bank accounts. They are refusing to explain why.
This will undermine free speech and independent accountability journalism.
@LloydsBank must explain themselves NOW! Retweet @LloydsBank and make them come clean.
not showing her kids as part of her daily life is a deliberate choice. unfortunately, others won't have the same choice when a rando just appears out of nowhere with that surveillance contraption
Burnham gave £1 Billion in public money to private developers to create just 500 "affordable" homes out of 11,000 units - so when it comes to this promise of a council house building programme; I'll believe it when I fucking see it mate.
Dear Washington Post. Once a guilty verdict has been rendered, it’s no longer an allegation. It’s a fact. The jury did not find that the disgraceful president allegedly sexually assaulted & then defamed Jean Carroll. The jury found that he did sexually assault & defame her. Duh