Polling firm shutters after admitting fake survey showing LA mayor leading rival by double digits was ‘experiment’
- A polling firm has shuttered after acknowledging that it released a fabricated survey purporting to show Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass with a double-digit lead over her election rival.
- The company, Median Strategies, posted a notice on its website saying it had “concluded its polling project” and that none of its surveys should be cited as “genuine polling data.
- ”“Median Strategies was created as a short-term social experiment examining how purported polling information could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification,” the notice states.
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- A polling firm has shuttered after acknowledging that it released a fabricated survey purporting to show Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass with a double-digit lead over her election rival.
- The company, Median Strategies, posted a notice on its website saying it had “concluded its polling project” and that none of its surveys should be cited as “genuine polling data.
- ”“Median Strategies was created as a short-term social experiment examining how purported polling information could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification,” the notice states.
Sources: The Independent