Young creator's fake polls reveal how fast misinformation can spread
TL;DR
A 21-year-old behind Median Strategies published deceptive election polls in Wisconsin, Nevada and California to study how fake data enters the political information ecosystem; the project spread on social media and through media coverage before Median shut down, with the founder calling it a short-term social experiment and claiming no funding, while critics and the American Association of Political Consultants condemned the deception.
Topics:nationpolitics#election-integrity#fake-polling#median-strategies#misinformation#politics#rahil-prakash
- Website behind widely shared fake election polls run by 21-year-old The Guardian
- Poll showing Bass leading Raman by double digits was bogus, company says Los Angeles Times
- Fake Polls in Wisconsin and California Were Part of a ‘Social Experiment’ The New York Times
- A fake poll tested media and poll trackers. Here’s who passed and failed. The Washington Post
- Another polling firm comes under fire for ‘falsified data’ on Florida primary The Hill
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