Wednesday, March 18, 2026

‘Insidious’: Online gamblers threaten reporter over Iran war bets


Until he began to receive threatening messages, Fabian didn’t know his brief report had triggered a dispute over bets on the prediction market. 

Emanuel Fabian, a 28-year-old war correspondent at the Times of Israel newspaper, published a short blog post reporting that an Iranian missile had struck an open area outside a Jerusalem suburb that didn't hurt anyone.

Until he began to receive threatening messages, Fabian didn’t know his brief report had triggered a dispute over bets on the prediction market Polymarket on whether an Iranian missile would strike Israel on March 10. For those with money down, millions of dollars were potentially riding on his blog post

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‘Insidious’: Online gamblers threaten reporter over Iran war bets

Until he began to receive threatening messages, Fabian didn’t know his brief report had triggered a dispute over bets on the prediction mark...