Fake Polling Firm Duped Media in 'Social Experiment'

A polling firm whose surveys were reproduced by prominent media outlets, including Newsweek, has said that its results were fabricated and that the deception was a social experiment to expose weaknesses in the industry.

Wedgewood Polls made the statement on October 20 after researchers at election analysis website FiftyPlusOne confronted it with evidence that its underlying data was fake.