Coinbase (COIN) sent users a fake “breaking news” alert saying Norway’s soccer team beat Brazil 3-2 in a World Cup knockout match before the match had even started.
The alert said Erling Haaland scored twice in the match at MetLife Stadium. Coinbase’s own prediction market page still listed the game as weather delayed at the time.
Users posted screenshots of the notification on X Sunday. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong responded to one saying he was looking into it with the team. According to a post, the warning was sent at 10:26 a.m. ET. The match didn’t start until 4 p.m
Max Branzburg, the company’s head of consumer and business products, later clarified that the incorrect story was corrected and the company “made some updates to avoid these types of inaccuracies in the future.”
“It’s great to see the power of AI-enabled 24/7 insights for trading, but it obviously still needs to be tweaked to solve these types of problems,” Branzburg wrote on X.
The match itself saw Norway beat Brazil and Haaland scored twice. The final score was 2-1.
