'Fake' pollsters hit US midterms
Michigan Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow said after the group's "poll" in late June showed her support in the single digits, she said "donations dried up," volunteers were "devastated," and the media "hounded" her "with calls to drop out."
"It killed us," McMorrow wrote on X.
The revelations come amid warnings that AI-powered tools were enabling the fakery.
"It's getting easier to conduct low-quality polls -- or fake them altogether," FiftyPlusOne said.
Sophisticated AI tools were also making it difficult to identify phony pollsters and made-up data, the American Association for Public Opinion Research said in a statement.
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One more reason to never trust the polls. I thought we had learned this lesson over the years, but I guess not.
That's exactly what they want, to sow distrust in the organizations actually doing real work.
Bait used to be believable. But I guess I'm not the target demographic.
I've been hounded by so many text and calls for this shit the last 10 weeks. I'm so ready for it to be done.