The company behind a poll that Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass touted as showing her with a double-digit lead in the mayoral race said the survey was entirely fake and part of a social experiment.

Last week, Bass made a post on X showing a poll putting her at 50% and her rival Nithya Raman at just 39%.

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