A Democratic lawmaker harshly criticized PolyMarket for allowing users to bet on the date the U.S. would confirm the rescue of airmen shot down in Iran.
“They could be your neighbors, friends, family, and people are betting on whether they will be saved or not. This is disgusting,” Rep. Seth Moulton wrote on social media Friday. (President Donald Trump announced Sunday morning that a second soldier, a weapons systems officer, had been rescued.)
Moulton also described Polymarket as a “dystopian death market” and noted that Donald Trump Jr. was an investor. The lawmaker recently banned his employees from participating in prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi.
Polymarket responded by closing the market “immediately” for failing to meet the company’s integrity standards.
The company said, “This content should not have been published, but we are investigating how it got past our internal safeguards.”
Polymarket has previously traded hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts related to the U.S. and Israeli bombing of Iran.
