民调机构Wedgewood Polls周二承认在发布的调查中使用虚假数据，声称这一举动是为了进行"社会实验"，旨在暴露政治民调行业缺乏有效审查和把关的问题1。该虚假数据曾被Newsweek、Hill、Breitbart、Daily Beast和Washington Examiner等媒体刊登，纽约时报、Nate Silver旗下机构和Decision Desk HQ等数据库也采用了这些虚假民调1。事件曝光后，这些机构随后撤下了相关民调内容。
Wedgewood Polls于6月首次出现，网站注册于6月26日1。该虚假民调对真实政治生涯产生了影响，密歇根州民主党参议员Mallory McMorrow因该虚假数据支持率下跌，于7月5日宣布退选1。直到10月初，民调审查机构FiftyPlusOne收到举报并获得原始数据后，才发现数据存在明显不一致1。此外，8月份民调公司Median Strategies也因类似虚假民调事件被曝光1。
Wedgewood Polls acknowledged on Tuesday that it had published survey data that was entirely fabricated, characterizing the effort as a "social experiment" designed to highlight the lack of scrutiny and editorial oversight in the political polling industry.1 The false data was subsequently adopted by numerous major news outlets and data aggregators, prompting multiple organizations to remove the polls from their records following the disclosure.
The fabricated surveys appeared in publications including Newsweek, The Hill, Breitbart, the Daily Beast, and the Washington Examiner, while databases maintained by the New York Times, polling analyst Nate Silver, and Decision Desk HQ also incorporated the fraudulent figures.1 Michigan Democratic Senator Mallory McMorrow withdrew from the race on July 5 after her polling numbers declined due to the false data.1
Wedgewood Polls first emerged in June, with its website registered on June 26.1 The fabrication came to light after FiftyPlusOne received a report in early October and obtained the underlying data, revealing inconsistencies that exposed the deception.1 A similar incident occurred in August when Median Strategies faced exposure for releasing false polling data.1
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