Spotify catches users manipulating song charts for cash

Prediction markets are incentivizing the systematic corruption of our data, and the manipulators are winning. By pumping 500,000 fake streams into a song to rig a $3 million betting pool, traders successfully gamed Spotify’s charts and got paid before the fraud was even caught. From music rankings to weather sensors, financial bets are now driving people to fake reality for a payout. If every metric can be bought and rigged, is any "top" chart actually real anymore?
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