Katherine Long

Terry Thompson lost $1.5 million on bets he placed with FanDuel. The company gave him VIP treatment — including a personalized video message from the Phillies' Bryce Harper.

The banking beat leads to many unexpected places: Execs at Fifth Third and Comerica (which merged last year) have had some friendly clashes over how to make chili. Cincinnati, where FITB is based, is known for its chili on spaghetti tradition

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Just one day before President Trump announced a pause on much of his Liberation Day tariff regimen, he bought over 300 individual stocks worth at least 3.6 million. He sold none. Chart from our @WSJ story today:

NEW: We found bodegas in Brooklyn selling what they advertised as retatrutide, an experimental weight-loss drug, whose commercial sale is prohibited by federal law.

For the first time, Trump appears to have formally disclosed how much he earned from selling of 49% of his crypto company to UAE investors: $263M We reported on the secret deal with the UAE’s ‘Spy Sheikh’ back in January. wsj.com/finance/trump-…

We analyzed Trump's 900-page disclosure and tell you everything you need to know in four charts. Read it here (gift link): wsj.com/finance/trump-… Story w/ @JohnWest @skesslr @DavidUberti

This is such a weird take. Normally I’d let it slide but seeing it increasingly, so: We are not paid by Kalshi. In fact, as we disclose in our stories (if one bothers to read them), our parent company has a partnership with Polymarket. Our reporting remains independent.

@WashPostComms @stefaniei @washingtonpost @WSJ Great hire for the Post!! Congrats Stefanie!!

🚨@stefaniei is joining The @WashingtonPost from The @WSJ as Editor of our Long-Term Investigations Team! Her former colleagues describe her as a gracious and thoughtful leader, and reporters said they loved working for her. “She bets on her reporters and we feel that, and that matters a lot,” said one. ⤵️Read the announcement from Investigations Editor @DavidSFallis & Deputy Investigations Editor @ericrich. 🎉Welcome Stefanie!

Scoop: US labor board prosecutors are backing off from a case against Amazon in Georgia, defusing another “Who’s the boss?” dispute over the company's responsibility for subcontracted staff bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

CFTC investigating Polymarket

They looked like they were getting rich on Polymarket—but none of it was real. The prediction market has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation. Read more: on.wsj.com/44go7RP

Top-ranking Senate Democrats are calling for hearings into a secret $500 million investment into the Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture from a group led by a senior Emirati royal. @skesslr wsj.com/politics/polic…

@MikeVorkunov @ceostroff @neilmhta @brenna__smith thanks so much for reading Mike!!

This insane. Polymarket paid content creators to record ads where they faked placing bets and winning money on a fake Polymarket website to promote the company, the WSJ reports. From @ByKLong @ceostroff @neilmhta @brenna__smith wsj.com/business/media…

1/ After seeing a lot of Polymarket videos on social media, my @WSJ colleagues and I wanted to understand Polymarket’s marketing. After watching a bunch of videos, we noticed that the website featured in them was almost, but not quite, identical to Polymarket’s actual platform.

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@TheNotoriousSKi @WSJ Thank you!!

@ByKLong @WSJ Great work @ByKLong & co

NEW: A college student filmed the exciting moment he won $100,000 – except the bet wasn’t real. A flood of videos showing fake trades and fake wins is fueling Polymarket’s hype machine, our @WSJ investigation found. It's part of a secret campaign for Americans’ attention.

@zubic_eth thanks for reading 🙏🙏

This WSJ investigation is wild 🤯 Creators on social media looked like they were printing money on Polymarket, posting massive wins and huge cashouts. Turns out a lot of it wasn't real. > Polymarket allegedly built fake versions of its platform that looked nearly identical to the real site > Young creators were reportedly paid $2,000-$3,000 per month to film scripted trades and cashouts on those fake interfaces > They were allegedly told not to disclose the payments and to reshoot content if it wasn't exciting enough > The campaign reportedly used outdated clips, altered headlines, and networks of clipping accounts to push content to millions of viewers > More than 1,100 videos were analyzed, with many showing "winning" bets that would have actually lost money Pretty crazy stuff if true. The full WSJ investigation is linked below. Definitely worth the read.

With more than $20 billion at stake, you could call this case… Coke Ten Zeroes