Polymarket apologizes for allowing betting on the fate of the American pilot shot down in Iran.

BlockBeats message, April 5, according to NBC, that the prediction market platform Polymarket has issued an apology statement over the matter of whether it would allow users to place bets on the fate of the pilot of a U.S. fighter jet that was shot down over Iranian airspace. Previously, a U.S. official said that a two-seat F-15E “Strike Eagle” fighter jet was shot down on Friday. One member of the crew had been rescued, but the other remained missing.

In a later-deleted market, users could predict when the pilot would be rescued, and most people guessed that he would be rescued on Saturday. The title of the market read: “Has the U.S. confirmed the pilot will be rescued on…?”

U.S. Representative Seth Moulton—an American Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq—posted on the social platform X, sharply criticizing the market and pointing out that at a time when dangerous search-and-rescue operations were underway in Iran, there were still people making such predictions.

In a reply to Seth Moulton’s post on X, Polymarket said it was apologizing and stated that it had taken the market down. The company wrote: “We have immediately removed this market because it does not meet our integrity standards. This content should never have been published, and we are investigating how it managed to get around our internal review mechanisms.”