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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, @05:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @05:21PM (#407519)

    But seriously, can YOU point out a memorable statement from Clinton?

    Thank you for asking and, yes, I can. A couple of examples:

    When Trump tried to jab at Clinton for taking a few days off from campaigning to prepare for this debate, she responded "Yes, I did. And you know what else I prepared for? I prepared to be president."

    I have no doubt that this one will go down in history as being on par with Sen Bentsen's response to Dan Quayle "Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."

    Or, how about we revisit this one:

    “And he called this woman ‘Miss Piggy.’ Then he called her ‘Miss Housekeeping,’ because she was Latina. Donald, she has a name: Her name is Alicia Machado. She has become a U.S. citizen, and you can bet she’s going to vote this November.

    As I already alluded to, that rocked Donald back on his heels squealing in pain, "Where did you find this? Where did you find this?"

    Seriously, if you would just take off your hyper-partisan goggles you will see that Clinton clearly bested that dimwit Donald. And I don't have to be a Clinton supporter to to see this.