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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: 4, Informative) by NotSanguine on Wednesday September 28 2016, @06:34AM
Just like the written and saved obituaries for elderly notables, so too were many of these debate "analysis" stories written in advance. Media outlets like NYT and HuffPost were predictably touting Her Majesty's victory, despite the overwhelming use of dog whistles and meaningless "oopsie" about her email server scam. Their best efforts were in quoting a bunch of cowardly Republican politicians who already were against Trump from the start.
Fivethirtyeight [fivethirtyeight.com] and the NYT as well as many other organs live blogged the debates.
I'll let you do your own google-fu to find those. I know you won't because it runs contrary to the narrative in which you're you're invested.
Or, you could shock the hell out of everyone and actually delve into some real information. Shocking idea, isn't it?
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr