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The Guardian - UK
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Polymarket gamblers threaten Israeli journalist over missile strike story

Rocket trails in the night sky above an Israeli city
Rocket trails in the sky above the Israeli city of Netanya this month. The disputed report concerned a missile strike near Jerusalem on 10 March. Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images

An Israeli journalist received threatening messages from users of the online prediction platform Polymarket after one of his reports, on a minor missile strike near Jerusalem, suddenly became the focus of an unresolved bet about the Israel-Iran conflict.

“After you make us lose $900,000 we will invest no less than that to finish you,” said one message to the journalist, Emanuel Fabian.

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