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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 national media outlets in the US, claiming the project was a “social experiment” designed to expose the lack of scrutiny over the sector.Wedgewood Polls released a <a href="https://x.com/WedgewoodPolls/status/2112669955917242510" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">statement</a> on Tuesday on social media, after the polling and election analysis site FiftyPlusOne <a href="https://blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftyplusone-just-caught-a-pollster" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">reached out</a> for comment on an investigation it had conducted into their surveys and data. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/21/polling-fabricated-data-social-experiment" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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