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National Polling Company Admits It’s Totally Fake — Crows it Was ‘Far Too Easy’ to Get Major Media Outlets to Bite
(sh.itjust.works)
The New York Times has added an editor’s note to an article featuring a Wedgewood poll that reads: “This page previously included surveys from Wedgewood Polls. On Oct. 20, after being questioned by the polling site FiftyPlusOne, Wedgewood released a statement admitting it had fabricated data for its polls. All of Wedgewood’s polls have been removed from our poll tracking project.”
Earlier this month, MS NOW featured a Wedgewood Poll showing Jocelyn Benson (D) with a 10-point lead over Trump-backed John James (R) in the Michigan gubernatorial race.
In addition to The Times and MS NOW, scores of media outlets and prominent poll aggregators cited Wedgewood polling data, including; Newsweek, Decision Desk HQ, and Mediaite.
Me with my hand in the cookie jar, staring at my mom, who just caught me red-handed: "It was a test! I was just checking whether you would catch me, wow, you did it Mom, congrats!
Seriously. Without further evidence this was a "test", this announcement is worth little to nothing.
Also, if it was a test, how is the data being included a "failure"? These outlets aggregate a lot of polls precisely to mitigate bad data. It's basically doing with polls what the polls do with people.
For passing this test, here, Mom, you get a cookie.
Mom, For being part of a successful challenge of the cookie jars security and sugar allowance system, we should have one cookie each and I will have yours if you don't want one.