There is a lot of crap being produced to sway the election from all sides of the political spectrum.
A more serious question of how and why an organization such as the NYTimes (and others of similar stature) would so easily and quickly incorporate polling data from a brand new polling company into its election data and articles and be so easily fooled.
And, when this was uncovered, they did not do much more than what seemed the minimal amount to CYA, quietly backing out the data and issuing an editors note that few people would find.
They do not seem that interested in protecting their reputation, or maybe they don't believe their readers care.
Why are we both-sidesing this and blaming the poll aggregators when they are the ones that successfully rooted out the fake poll data?
I think a big problem is that, as a poll aggregator, the more you pick and choose which polls are allowed to be aggregated, the more risk there is that you are inserting bias into the result through selective exclusion. Erring on the side of broadly accepting poll data means less room for bias. But they do talk about the need to raise their standards due to the increasing ease of producing fake data in this podcast with FiftyPlusOne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Neuot3aMkrY
Trump has been manipulating the media, attacking the electoral process, lying, using federal resources to persecute political rivals... "all sides" seems unfair.
> "Right-Wing Influencers Amplify the Controversy"
A more serious question of how and why an organization such as the NYTimes (and others of similar stature) would so easily and quickly incorporate polling data from a brand new polling company into its election data and articles and be so easily fooled.
And, when this was uncovered, they did not do much more than what seemed the minimal amount to CYA, quietly backing out the data and issuing an editors note that few people would find.
They do not seem that interested in protecting their reputation, or maybe they don't believe their readers care.