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Pentagon bans troops from using nonpublic info to bet in prediction markets

Managing Editor · Saturday, October 24, 2026 at 6:32 PM · 1 min read

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The one-page document comes months after a soldier involved in the capture of Nicolas Maduro was charged with using classified info to bet on Polymarket.

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