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How DoorDash Cost Drivers $550 Million in Tips
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Americans lost a record $15.9 billion to fraud last year, and some scams started with a YouTube ad. The platform has spent years policing bad content, yet fake celebrity videos and fraudulent ads keep reaching viewers. To understand why, you have to look beyond moderation.🧵
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Today, viewers also have to wonder whether the ads themselves are fake, and not just the videos around them. I have investigated this in detail in my latest newsletter. Read here: themoneytrails.beehiiv.com/p…

WTF Is Happening To YouTube?

YouTube spent years protecting advertisers from creators. Now it may have to protect creators and viewers from the advertisers.

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The Money Trails

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If Housing is F*cked, Why Hasn’t It Crashed?
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But the biggest cost shows up in personal finances. 52% of Gen Z investors say they have redirected investing money into sports betting, and 26% treat betting as part of a long-term plan. That's how America’s gambling problem gets harder to solve when everyone starts depending on the next bet.
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I have investigated this in detail in my latest newsletter. Read here: themoneytrails.beehiiv.com/p…

How Gambling Money Will Break America

Behind America’s betting boom is a bigger problem: too many people now make money when the gambler loses

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The same money reached esports and creators too. Gambling companies now spend around $520 million a year on U.S. celebrity and creator deals. It's also why Penn Entertainment paid $163 million for 36% of Barstool: to reach its 66 million monthly visitors.
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The industry only needs that fight to stay unresolved. The SAFE Bet Act remains stuck, while gambling interests have spent about $72 million around the 2026 midterms through groups supporting candidates in both parties. By now, the money has become part of the system.
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That is where the problem changes because there is no single system left to police. States built their own regulations after the 2018 sports-betting ruling, while prediction markets kept being treated as gambling by one regulator and as financial products by another.
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Eight years ago, sports betting was illegal across most of America. Now half of men under 50 have a betting account. But the bigger change is where the money went. Gambling now helps fund media, creators, finance and politics, which makes walking away far harder. 🧵
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Once gambling looked respectable enough to enter finance, other industries had even less reason to refuse the money. Local TV alone received roughly $154 million from betting companies in one quarter in 2021. Nexstar now calls gambling a top-five advertising category.
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