Adding to the polling industry’s growing list of problems is a company that has admitted to releasing fake polls as a “social experiment” to see what kind of impact the misinformation could have.

The problem is this is exactly what many skeptics think normal pollsters are up to when the polls miss in key races, as they have done recently in Michigan and Wisconsin: releasing bogus data to shape political narratives to the benefit of their preferred candidates.

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