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21-Year-Old Reveals Himself as Author of Widely Reported Fake Election Polls
Posted on 8/22/26 at 8:28 am
Posted on 8/22/26 at 8:28 am
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A 21-year-old recent college graduate has revealed himself as the person behind a bogus polling operation whose numbers made their way into mainstream news coverage. Rahil Prakash told The Guardian in a report published Thursday that he single-handedly created Median Strategies, an anonymous polling website that published fabricated surveys of races in California, Wisconsin and Nevada. “I wanted to see if fake polls could really penetrate the ecosystem that easily,” Prakash told the outlet. “And as it turned out, it could.”
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/21-year-old-reveals-himself-as-author-of-widely-reported-fake-election-polls/
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Posted on 8/22/26 at 8:31 am to loogaroo
That's because the radical nut jobs are willing to believe anything OMB, regardless if it makes sense.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 8:34 am to loogaroo
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Rahil Prakash
Well, he definitely has the pedigree for creating fraud.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 8:35 am to Pedropatterstine
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That's because the radical nut jobs are willing to believe anything OMB, regardless if it makes sense.
If someone were making polls that showed the GOP making huge gains in the midterms you don’t think that would’ve gotten play too?
Posted on 8/22/26 at 8:37 am to tide06
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someone were making polls that showed the GOP making huge gains in the midterms you don’t think that would’ve gotten play too?
Nope. Of course not. That wouldn't fit the Democratic media narrative and you know it. Don't be disingenuous.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 8:40 am to loogaroo
Liberals would never lie.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 8:45 am to tide06
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If someone were making polls that showed the GOP making huge gains in the midterms you don’t think that would’ve gotten play too?
In the mainstream news media? Is this serious?
Welcome back Rip. Appears you enjoyed yourself a heck of a nap.
You’ll have some catching up to do.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 8:46 am to tide06
quote:I think multiple press outlets would engage in deep reporting to understand those polls in the interest of disproving them.
If someone were making polls that showed the GOP making huge gains in the midterms you don’t think that would’ve gotten play too?
Posted on 8/22/26 at 8:49 am to loogaroo
Anyone who paid any attention to 2016 polling for the presidential race knows how wildly flawed polls are. Even exit polling was insanely off.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 8:50 am to loogaroo
At best, this reveals that serious journalism is teetering on extinction, if it isn’t extinct.
It’s part of the job to investigate sources. If professionals at multiple MSM outlets aren’t doing that, then they’re just parroting info they grabbed online.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 8:51 am to coolpapaboze
They only ask if it fits the narrative on fake news outlets. The bottom line for them is staying alive by selling commercials which in reality is true of conservative news outlets as well but there are fewer of them and they are in less immediate need.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 9:29 am to loogaroo
People will believe anything on the internet.
I can post nonsense on twitter right now under some cool sounding handle, link it here and get a thousand upvotes. We’re a nation of Facebook grannies.
I can post nonsense on twitter right now under some cool sounding handle, link it here and get a thousand upvotes. We’re a nation of Facebook grannies.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 11:00 am to ClientNumber9
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Nope. Of course not. That wouldn't fit the Democratic media narrative and you know it. Don't be disingenuous
I agree completely that it wouldn’t have been covered by the MSM, I’m talking about the right wing podcast space.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 11:02 am to coolpapaboze
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I think multiple press outlets would engage in deep reporting to understand those polls in the interest of disproving them.
I hope they do the same to this guy if he received funding from NGOs or USAID type mechanisms.
My point is we’ve seen right wing sources run with garbage news on pods before. It’s not hard to get something to takeoff from a narrative standpoint these days if it generates clicks for someone.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 11:07 am to loogaroo
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At best, this reveals that serious journalism is teetering on extinction, if it isn’t extinct.
No real media outlet referenced the poll. Sniffed it out pretty quick…
Median shut down and retracted its polling earlier this week after a Los Angeles Times reporter began asking questions about the operation. The site subsequently characterized the project to the Times as a “short-term social experiment” testing whether bogus polling “could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification.”
Only a few half-witted politicians referenced it.
This post was edited on 8/22/26 at 11:09 am
Posted on 8/22/26 at 11:10 am to loogaroo
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Median Strategies, an anonymous polling website t
The only difference between this guy and the usual media polling is the this guy can admit it’s all bullshite.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 11:10 am to loogaroo
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“I wanted to see if fake polls could really penetrate the ecosystem that easily,” Prakash told the outlet. “And as it turned out, it could.”
I would be more interested to see if accurate, real polls could penetrate the MSM / progressive ecosystem.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 11:50 am to loogaroo
Yet everyday we are told by the pod bros that the polls are all bad for Trump.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 12:18 pm to tide06
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If someone were making polls that showed the GOP making huge gains in the midterms you don’t think that would’ve gotten play too?
They didn't.
whataboutism
Posted on 8/22/26 at 1:39 pm to TheHarahanian
quote:do you think a journalism major who lands a job as a producer at at a major news outlet really gives a shite or are they like almost everyone else, do as little work as possible?
It’s part of the job to investigate sources. If professionals at multiple MSM outlets aren’t doing that, then they’re just parroting info they grabbed online.
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