Stephens_AI

Graduate student at UMass Amherst.

[Przemyslaw Grabowicz @przemyslslaw]

Thrilled to share this press release of @UMassAmherst about our research revealing questionable votes and biases in tens of thousands of US presidential #election polls on @X (conducted w @StephenAI, @vijayalaks26304, @hide_yourself, @yang3kc, @junghwanyang).

[UMass Amherst @UMassAmherst]

Don't believe everything you see on social media.

Informal political polls conducted on X during both the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections were significantly skewed by questionable votes.

🔗 Details here: https://t.co/FnpSfxXwkB

@manningcics

[Przemyslaw Grabowicz @przemyslslaw]

First paper🔬 on social polls!!!🗳️
Over 100k polls gauged support for 2020 US presidential candidates on @X, and gathered >20m votes. They favored Trump by >10% (on average). Many were used to reinforce voter fraud beliefs and were likely manipulated by bots and fake votes.
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[Przemyslaw Grabowicz @przemyslslaw]

Many social polls were used to insinuate an alternative winner of the election. Some polls claimed to “test the accuracy of national polls”. Details in our paper (published with @StephenAI, @vijayalaks26304, @hide_yourself, @yang3kc, @junghwanyang): https://t.co/EeUzRN5EBb
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