Mark Halperin
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A mysterious company claiming it fabricated a poll of the Los Angeles Mayor's race after the bogus numbers were promoted by Mayor Karen Bass and picked up by at least one news outlet.
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According to the Los Angeles Times, a company calling itself Median Strategies claimed last week that Bass was leading Los Angeles City Councilmember Nietzsche Rahman by nearly twelve points ahead of the november third mayoral runoff.
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Median claimed the result was
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The result came from a survey of 560 Los Angeles voters conducted between July 30th and August 5th with a 4.1 margin of error.
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None of it was real.
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After repeated questions from LA Times City Hall reporter Noah Goldberg, media reportedly admitting Monday that it had not actually conducted the poll.
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The company instead telling the LA Times it had been created as a quote, short-term social experiment designed to test how to do that.
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Has supposed polling data could spread through political media without being independently verified.
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Median refusing to identify the people behind the operation and declining interview requests.
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The fake poll, including one particularly eye-catching finding involving reality television star Spencer Pratt, who finished behind Bass and Rahman in the June mayoral primary, Median claims 16% of its supposed
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Respondents had voted for Pratt, and that roughly 85% of those voters now planned to support Bass.
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The company portraying those voters as gravitating toward Bass as the more moderate choice over Raman, who is aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America.
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That finding becoming the basis of a California post story suggesting Pratt voters could become the deciding factor in the runoff.
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Bass herself then promoting the fake results from
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From her campaign account, writing, quote, doing the work, showing up, and gaining momentum.
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Let's do this, LA.
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That post has since been deleted.
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Goldberg began to look more closely at Median, finding it only began posting on social media August 9th and had 20 followers.
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In his first post, the company promising to fix what it called polling's quote, credibility problem by taking no money from campaigns or political.
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Parties, Median then releasing a poll in Wisconsin showing Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong leading the gubernatorial race by more than twenty points.
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