Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In the past few months, Polymarket—a popular platform where users can bet on the outcomes of everything from sports to elections and even wars—has been courting relationships with news organizations. In the past year, Polymarket and sites like it have announced partnerships with CNN, CNBC, Dow Jones, and Yahoo Finance, as well as the platform Substack. They’ve even approached independent journalists for partnership deals, according to The Verge. The connections to journalism are part of the gambling platforms’ push to be seen as legitimate sources of meaningful real-time information about events in the world, but a New York Times analysis published last week found that Polymarket’s X account contained hundreds of false and misleading posts. An analysis by the Tow Center shows that Polymarket’s influence on X may spread far beyond its own account.…