Not for those of us around in 2018 when they became QVC for sh*tcoins
replyPainfully obvious when you realize how heavily involved the current administration is with both Paramount Skydance (CNN owner / Trump has equity) and Kalshi (Trump Jr has equity).
replyNot really. It's easy "content"for them and adds a veneer of quantitative rigor to what would otherwise be pure vibes.
replyNot sure why you’re getting downvotes, this is exactly the case, along with I’m sure a nice payoff from the prediction markets for sponsored segments. Same reason betting odds are so heavily integrated into sports news
replyI mean, it only feels weird if you missed Kalshi becoming a CNN partner 6 months ago. Media is entirely captured by capital, so I wasn't even surprised when they did that.
replyhttps://news.kalshi.com/p/kalshi-cnn-prediction-market-partn...
Not really? It's an interesting proxy for public opinion that requires zero investment from the news org. They don't have to pay a polling agency or wait for someone else to.
replyOf course that suffers some likely substantial bias from oversampling a specific domain/sub-population