News Organizations Like CBS Embracing Prediction Markets as "Journalism" Is a Deep Moral Disgrace
futurism.com
CBS threw caution — and its own journalistic integrity — to the wind by signing a partnership with prediction market Kalshi for the elections.
  • eicker@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    231·
    24 hours ago

    Calling a betting market »journalism« is quite the innovation: why investigate power, verify facts, or protect sources when you can just put odds on reality and call it data? CBS partnering with Kalshi feels less like the future of news and more like turning election night into a casino with correspondents.

    • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
      12·
      22 hours ago

      More like sponsored content, rather than content. Or, as we usually call it, advertising.