Why a fake poll got into mainstream poll trackers, how it was discovered and the common thread behind both fake poll scandals this year.
On Tuesday, a group calling itself Wedgwood Polls said in a since-deleted social media post that it published fabricated polls in midterm election races, claiming that it was an “experiment” to test whether media outlets and aggregators would report on the data. That announcement came after Wedgewood was asked to comment on the findings of an investigation into its work by FiftyPlusOne, a website founded by former staff of the data-journalism site FiveThirtyEight.