{"id":142822,"date":"2026-08-18T22:58:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T22:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/18\/mysterious-polling-firm-behind-fake-election-surveys-closes-after-admitting-social-experiment-fox-news\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T22:58:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T22:58:30","slug":"mysterious-polling-firm-behind-fake-election-surveys-closes-after-admitting-social-experiment-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/18\/mysterious-polling-firm-behind-fake-election-surveys-closes-after-admitting-social-experiment-fox-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious polling firm behind fake election surveys closes after admitting \u2018social experiment\u2019 – Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Mysterious polling firm behind fake election surveys closes after admitting \u2018social experiment\u2019<\/a>  Fox News<\/font><\/li>\n
  2. Poll showing Bass leading Raman by double digits was bogus, company says<\/a>  latimes.com<\/font><\/li>\n
  3. Polling Firm Released Fake Data in Hong and Bass Races as a \u2018Social Experiment\u2019<\/a>  The New York Times<\/font><\/li>\n
  4. Fake polling from mysterious company highlights danger of unvetted election surveys<\/a>  AP News<\/font><\/li>\n
  5. Polling firm closes down after it faked Hong, Bass polls<\/a>  The Hill<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Mysterious polling firm behind fake election surveys closes after admitting \u2018social experiment\u2019  Fox News Poll showing Bass leading Raman by double digits was bogus, company says  latimes.com… [more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}