Wedgewood Polls posted on X Tuesday night that it fabricated its data throughout the 2026 election cycle, claiming it was done as a “social experiment” intended to spark reform of the industry.
\n\nThe statement said in part that the individuals behind Wedgewood conducted “an experimental project to demonstrate the vulnerabilities, lack of oversight, and overall low barrier to entry in the modern political polling industry. We wanted to test a simple hypothesis: How easy is it for an entirely fabricated polling firm to gain traction, be taken seriously, and expose how little scrutiny exists in media and public commentary? The short answer: Far too easy.”
\n\nWedgewood took credit for at least 18 polls this year in which the data was cited by numerous polling aggregators such as the left-wing FiftyPlusOne, Decision Desk HQ, and the New York Times.
\n\nAmong the races in which Wedgewood’s faked data had material impact was the Michigan Democrat Senate primary, which led to one of the candidates dropping out of the contest.
\n\nMallory McMorrow, who dropped out of the race soon after Wedgewood reported she fell to just 9 percent in the three-way race with Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens, blasted the group in a…
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