{"id":1016559,"date":"2026-06-24T08:05:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016559"},"modified":"2026-06-24T08:07:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:37:51","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-directed-meta-to-create-a-prediction-markets-app-nyt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/24\/mark-zuckerberg-directed-meta-to-create-a-prediction-markets-app-nyt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app: NYT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently dispatched a small team at his company to create a smartphone app similar to Polymarket and Kalshi, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing two employees with knowledge of the matter. <\/p>\n<p>The app will probably rely on a video game-like points system instead of \u200cusers wagering \u2060money, though \u2060the company has not ruled out betting real money eventually, according to the report. <\/p>\n<p>The company did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Reuters could not independently verify the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently dispatched a small team at his company to create a smartphone app similar to Polymarket and Kalshi, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing two employees with knowledge of the matter. The app will probably rely on a video game-like points system instead of \u200cusers wagering \u2060money, though \u2060the company has not ruled out betting real money eventually, according to the report. The company did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Reuters could not independently verify the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016562,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016559\/revisions\/1016562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}