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4chan and Reddit Bombarded Debate Polls to Declare Trump the Winner

posted by CoolHand on Wednesday September 28 2016, @03:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the stuffing-the-ballot-box dept.

DeathMonkey writes:

You may be getting trolled right now without even knowing it.

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/

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @10:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @10:02AM (#407308)

    What would a three-sided die look like? I'm having a very hard time visualizing one.

  • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Wednesday September 28 2016, @10:26AM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Wednesday September 28 2016, @10:26AM (#407316)

    Kind of like an American football, pointed at the ends but with 3 sides, each being kind of "eye-shaped" There are other ways to do it as well, including some that actually have more than 3 sides, but this is probably the simplest.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @10:38AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @10:38AM (#407319)

      Well, I'll be darned [thingiverse.com]. Thanks!

    • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday September 28 2016, @10:39AM

      by RamiK (1813) on Wednesday September 28 2016, @10:39AM (#407321)

      Why not substitute half the sides of a normal dice?

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      • (Score: 3, Funny) by Nerdfest on Wednesday September 28 2016, @01:20PM

        by Nerdfest (80) on Wednesday September 28 2016, @01:20PM (#407365)

        Because that wouldn't be three-sided, it would be three-numbered. You also need to be careful, as for many of us, substituting half the sides on a normal die would still leave us with ten.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 29 2016, @08:28PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 29 2016, @08:28PM (#408106)

      Yeah, like a six-sided die (cube) repeating 1-3 once.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 29 2016, @01:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 29 2016, @01:23AM (#407689)

    What would a three-sided die look like? I'm having a very hard time visualizing one.

    It looks the same way that one hand clapping sounds. I'm sure you will understand what I mean.