Zuckerberg reportedly wants a Polymarket clone — but without real money

Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has tasked a small team at the company with making an app that works like the prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi, according to The New York Times . The app, internally called "Arena" won't let users wager real money, but instead will "probably rely" on allowing users to bet with points, the NYT says - though Meta apparently hasn't ruled out eventually allowing people to bet with real money. Should Meta's app launch publicly, it would be just the latest example of Meta taking a popular idea from another company and building its own version, like it did when it cloned Snapchat's Stories format and TikTok's vertic … Read the full story at The Verge.