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I'm not sure if pollsters putting their finger on the scale == fake news, but there's a pretty well-documented record of polls "magically [0]" converging at the
by sndean 10y ago
I'm not sure if pollsters putting their finger on the scale == fake news, but there's a pretty well-documented record of polls "magically [0]" converging at the end of campaigns.
Assuming pollsters are systemically altering their own polls at the very end of campaigns, I could argue that the news articles written about those altered polls are sorta fake news articles.
[0] http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-clinton-gains-and-the-polls-magically-converge/ http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-clinton-...