Why it’s relevant. Polling has a serious credibility problem and this bogus company put out polls in two races that were wildly off from the final result. It’s known that some polls have bias or are used to drum up support but independent and small pollsters now will come under significantly more scrutiny.
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This company gave Hong +20 in the Wisconsin primary and gave Bass in LA +12. These polls caught media attention and made a splash. I still haven’t been able to find who was behind this and what even the intention was beyond the empty statement put out by Median Strategies
Bets on whether it was an attempt to influence prediction markets?
> *The phony poll by a company called Median Strategies showed Bass leading Raman by a wide margin, but the company acknowledged Monday that it was fake.
> *Median said the “poll” was instead a “short term social experiment” to see how polling information could be distributed without verification.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-e46xdcUo
With how wrong polling has been lately I wouldn’t be surprised if this was way more widespread than previously believed.