• jballs
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    6 months ago

    I never really put too much stock in polls, but did you all see the Michael Cohen testimony today? He admitted to skimming money off the top of some payments that Trump was making to a company called RedFinch to bump up his poll numbers through bots. I’m kind of surprised that admission in court wasn’t bigger news.

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      5 months ago

      I went to find the article, thank you for posting it. But while I agree it should be a bigger news story simply because it’s another story showing just how awful Trump is, but that’s why we’re not seeing more of it. People are tired of hearing, yet again, that Trump is an insecure cheating narcissist - but keep banging that drum because people need to go vote.

      But… I don’t think it’s as big as you’re trying to spin it. This isn’t presidential election polling that he botted - and the polling that is being done, while flawed in many ways, is less vulnerable to botting like this. This was a news channel poll on the Internet about the “most notable businessman” or something like that - Internet polling is, extremely frequently, botted.