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Alt-right Trump supporters artificially manipulated the results of online polls to create a false narrative that the Republican nominee won the first presidential debate on Monday night.
The efforts originated from users of r/The_Donald and 4chan, which bombarded around 70 polls, including those launched by Time, Fortune, and CNBC.
Multiple Reddit users enlisted the Trump-supporting masses on r/The_Donald, which has over 200,000 subscribers, by posting dozens of online polls that are vulnerable to vote brigading, bots, and other forms of manipulation that make these non-scientific surveys notoriously unreliable.
On 4chan's /pol/ board, users shared links to active polls along with instructions for how to maximize their impact on the results.
4chan, the notorious message board, has a long history of botting online competitions.
In 2009, users flooded the Time 100 poll to ensure that the site’s founder, Christopher “moot” Poole, made the cut.
In 2012, the pranksters employed JavaScript to vote for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Time’s annual Person of the Year poll and followed suit the next year with Miley Cyrus and Edward Snowden.
4chan also ensured a school for the deaf won a Taylor Swift concert. Likewise, a Twitter prankster helped send Pitbull to Kodiak, Alaska, as part of an online challenge by Walmart in 2012.
http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/trump-clinton-debate-online-polls-4chan-the-donald/
