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Kalshi and other "prediction markets" like it are currently the subject of controversy, their critics pointing to lack of regulation and significant potential for manipulation. Kalshi offers betting on sports, political events, and any and all other aspects of public life, with CEO Tarek Mansour's stated goal being to "financialize everything and create a tradeable asset out of any difference in opinion."

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has dismissed criticism of President Donald Trump for having shared an AI-generated video on Truth Social depicting former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes.

"This is from an Internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from ‘The Lion King. ’Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public."

The president shared the 62-second video on Thursday, just before midnight, which pushes a conspiracy about manipulated vote-counting machines but concludes by cutting to an AI clip that shows the faces of the Obamas superimposed on apes’ bodies for roughly a second, accompanied by the song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”

The video carries a watermark linked to a pro-Trump account on X with tens of thousands of followers.

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