Spotify Asks Kalshi, Polymarket to Remove Branding After Manipulated Streams

2026-07-07

Over 500,000 artificial streams inflated Malcolm Todd's song "Earrings" on Spotify charts, and the manipulated figures settled a Kalshi prediction market with $3 million in trading volume where bettors who entered at Todd's sub-3% odds stood to earn around 30x their stakes.