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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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday September 28 2016, @01:25PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday September 28 2016, @01:25PM (#407367) Journal

    For me the big one was 'NAFTA and TPP is the gold standard'. That will be hard for her to work around esp in the blue color world. They have watched everything they grew up with and built evaporate. I have watched over the past 15 or so the white collar world starting to go the same route. It is clear this group wants to give even more power and money to multi national corps to do whatever they want and play arbitrage games with laws.

    I believe this is the core of why Trump will win. Hillary is in the pockets of the multi-nationals, and everyone knows it. Everyone in the United States who is not a hedge fund manager knows it and feels the ground eroding beneath their feet. They're afraid, and can perceive the danger of TPP the way a herd scents the smoke from a distance wild fire on the breeze.

    In truth the hedge fund managers, media moguls, and all of the Clinton cronies and puppetmasters should be rooting for Trump to win, because it would throw the 99% a bone and stave off the guillotine, and because Trump really won't change the status quo that much. If they rig this election for their own darling Hillary, then she won't get more than two years into her term before it all falls apart and they are dragged kicking and screaming from their armored SUVs by angry mobs.

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