A poll on the Los Angeles mayor’s race showed one candidate with a 12-point lead. It was entirely fake.

Polls released this election cycle by a firm called “Median Strategies” were fake, the company admitted, raising alarm that false numbers could be used to manipulate future electoral outcomes or prediction market betting. A Median Strategies poll in the Los Angeles mayoral race, published earlier this month, showed incumbent Mayor Karen Bass ahead of city council member Nithya Raman by nearly…

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