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Popular Info: The casino-fication of news

Popular Information (12/8/25 ([link removed]) )

This week on CounterSpin: If you see no problem in news outlets reporting on desperately horrific conditions in Gaza, and what various political entities are doing or could do to address them, while a ticker at the bottom of the screen offers you an opportunity to gamble—for money—on whether or not “famine” in the region will be officially declared, this episode is not for you.

We’re learning about the deal ([link removed]) just struck by “news” outlets CNN and CNBC with the “prediction market operator” (evidently what we’re calling them now) Kalshi Inc. ([link removed]) We’ll hear from Judd Legum—founder and author at the newsletter Popular Information ([link removed]) —and from author and analyst Adam Johnson ([link removed]) , of Substack's the Column ([link removed]) and the podcast Citations Needed ([link removed]) .

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