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Query
How they overlap
Of the articles on each keyword in the last 7 days, with the same text and sources, how many also mention the other. Per lean: the share of its outlets' articles on public opinion that mention fraud.
14.0% of the 50 articles on public opinion also mention fraud, as do 4.3% of the 163 articles on fraud.
- Left-leaning2 of 13 articles
- 15.4%
- Least biased1 of 8 articles
- 12.5%
- Right-leaning4 of 29 articles
- 13.8%
Who picked it up when
It was already in the news on Oct 21, when this period starts, so who reported it first is not shown.
One row per source with a matching article, from the most left-leaning on top: a dot for each article, on a bar for each stretch of its coverage (a pause of more than 24 hours starts a new one). Hover or tap a dot for the headline, click it to read the article.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Results
7 articles mention public opinion and fraud in the last 7 days (Oct 21 to Oct 27).
| Article | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Examiner | The polls aren’t broken. They’re being made upWashington Examiner A day or two ago, a political polling company named Wedgewood Polls admitted that its election data was entirely fake. The company posted a statement online explaining that it made up its numbers to see if anyone would notice. This trick worked completely. Major news organizations and polling websites such as The New York Times, […] | 0.65 | |
| Newsmax | How a Fake Pollster May Have Moved Some 2026 ElectionsNewsmax Fabricated polls favoring Democrat candidates may have influenced key 2026 races by shaping fundraising, news coverage, and decisions about which campaigns deserved financial support. | 0.70 | |
| Washington Examiner | Polls have been wrong before. Could they be wrong again in 2026?Washington Examiner A major polling scandal rocked the political world just two weeks before the midterm elections in which a fake firm fabricated results in key races, raising questions about the validity of a polling industry already under constant scrutiny. The firm, called Wedgewood, claims it was conducting a “social experiment” to reveal the issues plaguing the […] | 0.70 | |
| The Hill | Fake polls fooled the political world. Now the midterms face a trust crisisThe Hill The political polling industry is under new fire after a second company on Tuesday acknowledged it had falsified data in a series of polls released over the past year. The admission by Wedgewood Polls comes as Republicans question whether this year's midterm polls are wrong and are undercounting GOP support. Wedgewood's polling had been used by... | 0.55 | |
| Washington Examiner | Beware of bogus pollingWashington Examiner For the second time in two months, a polling organization embraced by media outlets has admitted to fabricating its results. This time, the deception lasted much longer, fooled far more organizations, and appears to have inflicted greater electoral damage. In August, Median Strategies admitted to making up polls that showed socialist Francesca Hong leading Wisconsin’s […] | 0.55● | |
| PBS NewsHour | A company says its polls were fake. Here's what happenedPBS NewsHour A national polling organization revealed on Tuesday that the vast majority of its data had been fabricated, saying it was an "experimental project to demonstrate the vulnerabilities" of the modern political polling industry. | 0.65 | |
| The Guardian | Pollster admits to fabricating data for ‘social experiment’ to expose flaws of industryThe Guardian Wedgewood Polls said project was designed to highlight lack of scrutiny over polling sector by mainstream media A polling firm has admitted to using fabricated data in surveys that were picked up by national media outlets in the US, claiming the project was a “social experiment” designed to expose the lack of scrutiny over the sector. Wedgewood Polls released a statement on Tuesday on social media, after the polling and election analysis site FiftyPlusOne reached out for comment on an investigation it had conducted into their surveys and data. Continue reading... | 0.65● |
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
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Other keywords in the matching articles: the share of them that mention each, with the number of articles. The search icon searches for public opinion and that keyword instead of fraud, keeping the text, sources, source type and time range.
Coverage by source
The share of each source's stories in the last 7 days that match the query, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
| The Guardian | 0.2% | 1 | 609 |
| PBS NewsHour | 0.7% | 1 | 138 |
| The Hill | 0.3% | 1 | 348 |
| Washington Examiner | 1.1% | 3 | 287 |
| Newsmax | 0.4% | 1 | 235 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that match the query, in the last 7 days, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning2 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
- Least biased1 of 8 sources
- <0.1%
- Right-leaning2 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
Lean index +0.7: covered about evenly across the spectrum
Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that match the query. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
Bias scores by Media Bias/Fact Check.
1 source has no MBFC bias score and is not shown.
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.