Fake polls expose vulnerabilities in US elections ahead of midterms
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Wedgewood Polls admitted on social media earlier this month that fictitious battleground-state numbers for Texas, Ohio, Michigan, Kansas and Maine were fake; some were picked up by news outlets and polling trackers. It called the work an experimental project to expose weak oversight and low barriers in US polling, and said fabricated data can gain credibility and erode trust in election information during the midterm period.
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