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Spotify pushes back on Kalshi and Polymarket after a song’s chart run looked rigged
Spotify has removed roughly 500,000 streams from Malcolm Todd’s song “Earrings” after the track’s sudden rise to the top of its US daily chart lined up suspiciously well with a bet on the prediction market Kalshi. The company has also asked Kalshi and Polymarket to remove its logo from their sites and make clear that neither platform [] This story continues at The Next Web
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