{"id":722963,"date":"2026-04-21T01:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/last-week-tonights-john-oliver-says-he-wont-placate-prediction-markets-users\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T01:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:15:14","slug":"last-week-tonights-john-oliver-says-he-wont-placate-prediction-markets-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/last-week-tonights-john-oliver-says-he-wont-placate-prediction-markets-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week Tonight\u2018s John Oliver says he won\u2018t placate prediction markets users"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prediction market platforms took center stage on HBO\u2018s Last Week Tonight on Sunday as host John Oliver addressed regulation, laws and market manipulation.<\/p>\n

John Oliver, host of HBO\u2019s Last Week Tonight<\/em>, targeted prediction market platforms on his show\u2019s latest weekly deep dive.<\/p>\n

In Sunday\u2019s airing of the HBO show, Oliver discussed<\/a> some of the trivial event contracts on platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket, including betting whether members of the Trump administration would use certain words in public addresses, to the companies\u2019 controversial partnering with news<\/a> organizations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Specifically, the host questioned Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s relationship with both platforms \u2014 an adviser to Kalshi and Polymarket \u2014 and how the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) \u201cdoesn\u2019t even seem to be trying\u201d to block event contracts on terrorism, assassination and war under Chair Michael Selig.<\/p>\n

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Prediction market platforms took center stage on HBO\u2018s Last Week Tonight on Sunday as host John Oliver addressed regulation, laws and market manipulation. John Oliver, host of HBO\u2019s Last Week Tonight, targeted prediction market platforms on his show\u2019s latest weekly deep dive. In Sunday\u2019s airing of the HBO show, Oliver discussed some of the trivial…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":722964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/f=auto,onerror=redirect,w=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2026-04\/019dac80-a84b-7d49-a38f-4ac807931c22.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}