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Fake Polling Firm Duped Media in ‘Social Experiment’

The firm said only one Nebraska survey was real and funded through GoFundMe, after its fabricated numbers were cited by major media and aggregators.

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Wedgewood Polls said the deception was intended to establish how easily a fictitious polling company could obtain recognition.

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The firm claimed that everything was part of an "experimental project" to demonstrate the weaknesses of the sector. But the explanation came only after FiftyPlusOne detected irregularities in their data and asked for comments before publishing an investigation.

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Raw Story broke the news in Washington, United States on Wednesday, October 21, 2026.
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