COMPAMIR
High-Purity Fact Pipeline
High-Purity Fact Pipeline
Michele Spagnuolo
New York, USA
May 27, 2026
Verified: May 27, 2026
"A Google security engineer, Michele Spagnuolo, was arrested for using confidential internal data to place trades on Polymarket. The suspect allegedly netted $1.2 million by predicting Google's most-searched person of 2025. This is the first arrest of a tech worker for insider trading on a prediction market."
Author: Emile Servan-Schreiber
This book provides a foundational understanding of how prediction markets function and their potential to aggregate information. It helps contextualize why these platforms are becoming targets for manipulation and the ethical challenges inherent in decentralized betting on future events.
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