The Financialisation of Manipulation

When public attention becomes a market, discourse stops being something we share and starts becoming something speculators can game.

👋🏼 Today we’re talking about a shift that sounds technical but is actually very simple and very dark: betting markets are starting to wager not just on events, but on what people will pay attention to. That matters because once attention gets priced, there is money in steering the conversation, not just reading it. Stick with me on this one; it’s impo…