Pollster admits to fabricating data for ‘social experiment’ to expose flaws of industry
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- The Guardian US reports: “Wedgewood Polls said project was designed to highlight lack of scrutiny over polling sector by mainstream mediaA polling firm has admitted to using fabricated data in surveys that were picked up by…”
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