- Podcaster Amanda Hirsch apologized after facing severe backlash for promoting betting platform Polymarket using the Lindsay Clancy murder trial verdict.
- Hirsch posted a sponsored advertisement noting that Polymarket users predicted a Not Guilty verdict shortly after a mistrial was declared in the case.
- In her apology, Hirsch called the post grossly inappropriate and insensitive, saying she made a terrible judgment call because she became consumed by the trial.
- The high-profile trial involved Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy, who is accused of killing her three children while claiming she suffered from postpartum psychosis.
- Followers criticized Hirsch for monetizing the tragedy, with several urging her to donate her partnership earnings to a maternal mental health charity.
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