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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, @06:20AM
So is soylentnews going to end up getting a continuous stream of CTR spam, or is there something the non-paid, non-shill users can do about this before this spreads?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @11:55AM
What is "CTR"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @08:29PM
Correct the Record [wikipedia.org]. "In April 2016, Correct the Record announced that it would be spending $1 million to find and confront social media users who post unflattering messages about Clinton."
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday September 28 2016, @01:52PM
CTR = "Click-thru rate?"
You do know that Soylent is a not for profit, right? Soylent doesn't sell advertising at all. Nobody gets paid.
Soylent is not Slashdot.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Wednesday September 28 2016, @08:33PM
CTR = "Click-thru rate?"
You do know that Soylent is a not for profit, right? Soylent doesn't sell advertising at all. Nobody gets paid.
Soylent is not Slashdot.
I was curious about what "CTR" referred to as well, and came to the conclusion that AC was referring to this CTR [wikipedia.org].
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday September 29 2016, @11:45AM
Good find. Don't know that that CTR is any less silly than the accusation I thought he meant, though. Soylent has ardent, bright lights of all stripes. It's incorrect to accuse it of being right-wing, left-wing, or any-wing.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday September 28 2016, @02:33PM
I deleted three election related submissions before this one went up, so no.
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