On X, influencers are using prediction markets to sow distrust about election results

NPR | By Jude Joffe-Block,

Ayesha Rascoe

Published June 7, 2026 at 9:21 AM EDT

On X, posts about prediction markets are becoming the latest way for influencers to sow doubt about election results.

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Jude Joffe-Block

Jude Joffe-Block is a reporter at NPR covering how power, politics and influence intersect and how information circulates. Her beat includes the federal government's unprecedented efforts to link and aggregate data sets on people living in the United States.

Ayesha Rascoe

Ayesha Rascoe is the host of Weekend Edition Sunday and the weekend host of Up First. As host of the morning news magazine show, she interviews newsmakers, entertainers, politicians and more about the stories that everyone is talking about or that everyone should be talking about.

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