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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.0 points and no meaningful left-right divide to report. All three outlets approached the topic from a policy or analytical angle rather than an ideological one. CNBC led with an investigative framing, flagging "suspicious election-contracts trading" while still maintaining a factual, neutral tone. Forbes focused on regulatory misclassification, arguing that Utah lawmakers are "mistaking prediction markets for gambling" — a policy critique without partisan coloring. The Wall Street Journal took a performance-based analytical lens, using the colloquial "whiffing on elections" to question the forecasting accuracy of these markets heading into the midterms. The shared thread across all three is scrutiny of prediction markets — their legitimacy, regulation, and reliability — without that scrutiny being filtered through any discernible political orientation.