Fake Wedgewood poll shows how easily media outlets get duped now
TVREV’s Alan Wolk reports that a political polling firm called Wedgewood admitted its summer survey showing Michigan Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow collapsing below 10% support was a fabricated “experiment.”
Why it matters. Newsrooms that amplify unvetted internal or anonymous polling without verification risk becoming unwitting distribution channels for disinformation that can swing real elections.
Signal from TVREV · Alan Wolk · read the original.
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