Trump Is Still Boasting About Meaningless Online Polls, Even After Proof the Polls Were Spammed
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As if we needed any more evidence that Donald Trump is running a massive con game on the American public, today he’s continuing to hype those bogus online polls that anyone can vote in — and Fox News is, of course, helping him run the scam.
Every on-line poll, Time Magazine, Drudge etc., has me winning the debate. Thank you to Fox & Friends for so reporting!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 28, 2016
The Daily Dot has found proof these polls were being deliberately manipulated by Trump’s “alt-right” disciples: 4chan and Reddit Manipulated Online Polls to Declare Trump the Debate Winner.
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 message boards, which bombarded around 70 polls, including those launched by Time, Fortune, and CNBC.
It wasn’t hard to discover; they were posting their schemes and instructions on gaming the polls right out in public. The Daily Dot posted this screenshot showing the denizens of 4chan urging each other to use a web browser’s “incognito mode” to vote repeatedly for Trump.
And here’s a very interesting direct convergence between Trump’s boasting and the alt-right racists of 4chan:
Hm. “CNBC is the most important one.” pic.twitter.com/N9DGN2hOZe
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) September 28, 2016
And now we have a real scientific poll to report:
New Reuters/Ipsos national poll on who won the debate: Clinton - 56%, Trump - 26% https://t.co/Q7ywNk9hBn
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 28, 2016