‘Hairdryer or lighter?’: French police look at claim of sensor tampering to win weather bets | Prediction markets
French police are investigating alleged tampering with nationwide weather forecasting service tools after a sequence of uncommon temperature readings coincided with suspicious successful bets made on Polymarket. Data from a Météo-France weather station at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport was used to settle bets between on-line gamblers on what the temperature can be in Paris…
