{"id":3490691,"date":"2026-07-05T02:45:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/spotifys-streaming-fraud-problem-is-so-extensive-that-kalshi-traders-are-gaining-from-manipulated-charts\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T02:45:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:45:04","slug":"spotifys-streaming-fraud-problem-is-so-extensive-that-kalshi-traders-are-gaining-from-manipulated-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/spotifys-streaming-fraud-problem-is-so-extensive-that-kalshi-traders-are-gaining-from-manipulated-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify\u2019s streaming fraud problem is so extensive that Kalshi traders are gaining from manipulated charts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify has taken down over 500,000 streams from Malcolm Todd\u2019s track \u201cEarrings\u201d due to suspected bot activity, as reported by the Financial Times. The song, initially launched in 2024, unexpectedly climbed to the top spot on Spotify\u2019s daily U.S. chart following a significant increase in streams. Concurrently, traders on prediction [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify has taken down over 500,000 streams from Malcolm Todd\u2019s track \u201cEarrings\u201d due to suspected bot activity, as reported by the Financial Times. The song, initially launched in 2024, unexpectedly climbed to the top spot on Spotify\u2019s daily U.S. chart following a significant increase in streams. Concurrently, traders on prediction [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3490691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3490691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3490691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3490691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}