Social media polls deliberately skew political realities of 2016, 2020 US presidential elections, finds researchers

Trump posted the results of a questionable X/Twitter poll, showing that he would win with more than 70% of the vote, to his Truth Social account. Credit: Przemek Grabowicz and Stephen Scarano Informal political polls conducted on X/Twitter during both the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections were significantly skewed by questionable votes, many of which may have been purchased from troll farms. This conclusion, reached by a team of scientists led by Przemyslaw (Przemek) Grabowicz, research assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, shows that X/Twitter’s poll system deliberately reports biased public vote counts. On average, the results Read More