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how spammers and scammers managed to break polling

It's tough to deny that something is definitely off when it comes to polling this election cycle thanks to scammers, spammers, and unscrupulous data brokers.
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Despite pollsters’ public insistence otherwise, it’s harder and harder to avoid more and more wild swings, bizarre outliers, widening margins of error, and demographic cross tabs that appear to be two to four years behind. Experts in statistics and poll aggregation are even openly fighting with each other on social media. So, what’s going on? Are polls broken forever? What do we do with the data they collect? And perhaps most importantly, how do we navigate the clickbait chaos in the final stretch of this incredibly stressful, high stakes election?

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