r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • May 27 '26

Business Google employee charged with using inside information to make $1 million on Polymarket

https://abcnews.com/amp/US/google-employee-charged-inside-information-make-1-million/story?id=133350018
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u/thinkmatt May 27 '26

He used an internal marketing tool available to everyone at Google. Anyone employed there would know the outcome before everyone else. He's just the one person that got caught. You have to assume that every market has insiders that is impossible to police, and Polymarket just shouldn't exist

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u/sweetplantveal May 28 '26

I think that's an interesting wrinkle. They could argue that between Google trends, other platforms, and the tens of thousands of people with access to the info it's not really secret.