US Polling Firm Wedgewood Admits Fabricating Midterm Election Data

Wedgewood Polls, a US polling institute whose data was used by campaigns and media, admitted fabricating most of its data ahead of the midterm elections, following an investigation by aggregator FiftyPlusOne. The firm claims it was an experiment to test visibility, but the incident undermines trust in pre-election polling and may distort public perception. The full extent of the fabrication and its impact on published analyses remains unclear.

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