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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: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @06:51AM
Now isn't the time to vote third party, and nor was any other election. Every election is the most important election in history to the mental midgets that make up most of the electorate, and therefore we must continue to use a strategy which has proven to cause massive long-term harm: Mindlessly vote for the lesser evil. It may not have successfully removed our two-party system (i.e. basically one of the most important changes that we need to bring about) for the last few centuries, but this time it'll work for sure.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @03:25PM
After the first sentence I was looking for the -1 shill mod option, but in the end I went for +1 Touche. Well done.