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Fake pollster Wedgewood admits fabricated surveys as 'social experiment'
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Wedgewood Polls admitted to using fabricated data in its election surveys, claiming the stunt was an experimental project to expose vulnerabilities in the polling industry. Major U.S. outlets had published the fake polls, potentially harming real candidates.
AI summary · Original reporting is linked alongside
How the outlets frame it
5 outlets, each read from its own headline and opening- Stands outZeroHedge (negative, tabloid, loaded, one-sided).
- PlainestNewsweek and TIME.
Tap a logo to see the outlet, the headline it was read from, and where it sits on every measure.
Does the report cast the development as bad news or good news?
ZeroHedge reads as negative, TIME as neutral.
3 outlets not placed: the reading was split between distant levels.
Does the report play the story up to grab attention?
Split: Newsweek, RT and TIME read as mostly measured; Reason and ZeroHedge as tabloid.
Do the words judge rather than describe?
ZeroHedge stands apart as loaded; the other 4 read as neutral wording.
Does the report give room to one side only?
ZeroHedge stands apart as one-sided; the other 4 read as straight.
All 5 outlets and the headlines they were read from
Newsweek
Nate Silver Says Fake Poll Scandal Fuels Distrust Pushed by TrumpFraming: not placed · Sensationalism: Measured · Loaded language: Neutral wording · Slant: Straight
Reason
Worst Nathan for You–Style Scheme Ever? A Polling Company Claimed Its Fake Polls Were a Social Experiment.Framing: not placed · Sensationalism: Tabloid · Loaded language: Some charged words · Slant: Straight
RT
Fake pollsters fool US media with made-up election surveysFraming: not placed · Sensationalism: Mildly sensational · Loaded language: Some charged words · Slant: Straight
TIME
How a Fake Pollster May Have Hurt Real CandidatesFraming: Neutral · Sensationalism: Measured · Loaded language: Neutral wording · Slant: Straight
ZeroHedge
Nate Silver Explodes In Foul-Mouthed Tirade After Fake Polling Firm Pulls Off Humiliating HoaxFraming: Negative · Sensationalism: Tabloid · Loaded language: Loaded · Slant: One-sided
Each outlet is read blind: a classifier sees its headline and opening next to the story's own headline, without the outlet's name, and scores how the report presents the story. A logo sits at the classifier's average reading, so it can fall between two levels. These readings compare coverage of this story only; they are not ratings of the outlets.
Where the outlets diverge
Two headlines from opposite endsSensationalism · Measured → Sensational
Slant · Straight → One-sided
The story as a whole
Read from all the reports togetherSingle event
No time pressure
No violence reported
Other signals
3 found · 18 not present- Where it happensUnited States national
- What a reader getsNew facts
- ToneNeutral and factual
- Article typenot present
- Topicnot present
- Policy areanot present
- Government levelnot present
- Main political actornot present
- Civil liberties questionnot present
- Market relevancenot present
- Which marketunclear
- Market horizonnot present
- Who is economically affectednot present
- Corporate dimensionnot present
- Conflict dimensionnot present
- Conflict direction reportednot present
- Humanitarian impactnot present
- Public safetynot present
- Public healthnot present
- Scientific evidencenot present
- Legal risk in the reportingnot present
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