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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: 4, Insightful) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Wednesday September 28 2016, @02:36PM

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Wednesday September 28 2016, @02:36PM (#407406) Journal

    A fascinating anecdote, and I don't doubt its veracity, but I would say it is proof of one crooked politician (and his crooked minions) rather than proof of a national democratic racist conspiracy.

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday September 28 2016, @04:23PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday September 28 2016, @04:23PM (#407484) Journal

    One crooked politician? Oh, no, that was one crooked politician to illustrate the system that obtains in New York City, the sina qua non of national Democratic party politics. Whether it's the Boyland family in East Brooklyn, the Clarke family in Crown Heights/Bedford-Stuyvesant, or Charlie Rangel's people in the Bronx, it's crooked through-and-through.

    Also, I didn't say that it was a racist conspiracy. My thesis was not that the Democratic party is the racist party and that the Republican party is not, but that the Democratic party very much has a vested material interest in preserving the dependency of urban blacks, Latinos, and other disadvantaged groups and that they very directly and ruthlessly defend it. The race of the dependent groups is immaterial. The group could be creamy white, blonde-haired Lithuanians and the situation would be the same.

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    Washington DC delenda est.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @09:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @09:32PM (#407620)

    I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for 200 years. --LBJ