Fishy Polls: Breaking Down the Median Strategies and TPSI Revelations
Last week was quite the week for the business of political polling. First up, our good friends at The Guardian did what their American counterparts could not and were able to uncover the source of Median Strategies, the organization that released completely fabricated polls in three separate states. From their Friday exclusive : A 21-year-old recent college graduate was behind an anonymous website that put out widely shared fake election polling in Wisconsin, Nevada and California , the Guardian can reveal. The website, Median Strategies, abruptly shut down and withdrew its polling earlier this week following questions from a reporter from the Los Angeles Times . In an unsigned statement , it described a “short-term social experiment” to examine how fake polling “could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification”. “I wanted to see if fake polls could really penetrate the ecosystem that easily,” Rahil Prakash told the Guardian...
