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Netflix faces cease-and-desist over controversial scene in new documentary

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Netflix’s next documentary might be getting the streaming giant more than just views. Last Friday, Kalshi sent Netflix a cease and desist following the release of the trailer for a new documentary on prediction markets. Titled Instadocs: The Prediction Games, the documentary centers on the increasingly popular world of prediction markets with the rise of platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket—whose CEOs are set to appear in the documentary. The trailer follows a World Cup Final viewing party hosted in Las Vegas, with guests boasting about their use of prediction markets. In one case, a guest even showed off a $5,000 bet on Kalshi for a contract titled “Will Spain win the 2026 FIFA World Cup?” The individual’s sport event contract has since become a point of contention between Netflix and Kalshi, who has called the trailer “defamatory,” claiming it contains “fabricated documents” that may be misleading. The issue arises because Kalshi is currently banned in the state of Nevada, making a s

First report: Kalshi, Netflix: Controversial Bet in Trailer Was Made Before Nevada Ban — frontofficesports.com, 17d