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Donald Trump supporters artificially manipulated the results of online polls to create a false narrative that the Republican nominee won the first presidential debate on Monday night.
The efforts originated from users of the pro-Trump Reddit community r/The_Donald and 4chan messaged boards, which bombarded around 70 polls, including those launched by Time, Fortune, and CNBC.
In this latest incarnation, multiple Reddit users enlisted the Trump-supporting masses on r/The_Donald, which has over 200,000 subscribers, by posting dozens of online polls that are vulnerable to vote brigading, bots, and other forms of manipulation that make these non-scientific surveys notoriously unreliable.
Polls that were not open to public voting consistently put Clinton ahead of Trump. In a flash poll by Public Policy Polling, Clinton led Trump 51 to 40. A CNN/ORC poll conducted immediately following the debate found significantly stronger support for Clinton, who topped Trump 62 to 27.
http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/trump-clinton-debate-online-polls-4chan-the-donald/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @03:30AM
Who the fuck takes online polls seriously? Even many normal polls are unscientific, and online ones are even worse.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @04:27AM
> Who the fuck takes online polls seriously?
Trump and his campaign. They've been talking about those polls non-stop. Maybe it wasn't 4chan brigading them, but a bangladeshi click-farm hired by Trump. He has a history of hiring actors to make his events look big league. [hollywoodreporter.com] Fake it till you make it...
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Wednesday September 28 2016, @05:39AM
Can we ask this to our readers?
( ) I do
( ) I don't because I'm a conspiracy theorist
( ) I don't because usually I don't like the outcome
( ) I do and posted some reasons below
See? Totally unbiased and unmanipulative
Registered IRC nick on chat.soylentnews.org: qkontinuum
(Score: 2) by fritsd on Wednesday September 28 2016, @07:00AM
If everyone votes for Trump, you should too!
After all, you wouldn't want to be a DEVIANT, would you?!?
Authoritarian followers are conformists.
And there are a lot of authoritarian followers.
So that's why online polls are important: many people want to vote just like "everybody else", where the "everybody else" is subject to interpretation and manipulation.
(Score: 2) by arulatas on Wednesday September 28 2016, @01:55PM
If you don't vote Trump you must be a Muslim sympathizer...
Trump and his new brand of McCarthyism.
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