Specialized website challenges argument about falsifying poll after TV presidential debate
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On Wednesday, just after 9pm, which is shortly after the start of the debate, state-owned TVP Info published a twitter poll in which the question was asked: "Who won the presidential debate?". In the survey, Rafał Trzaskowski achieved a definite advantage over his rivals. The total number of votes exceeded 30,000.
Half an hour later, TVP Info announced that the poll is invalid because a stream of 600 bots was detected.
"However, we do not take the survey off so as not to give an excuse for lying allegations against TVP" an explanatory post stated.
The authenticity of TVP's thesis has been checked by niebezpiecznik.pl. Its creators conducted a survey as part of the test and later checked the analytical mechanism that puts the social medium into use. There is no information about who is voting for which answer or even more data on bot activity.
"We have no idea how TVP calculated the number of bots so accurately. In our opinion, it is not possible to determine the number of falsely cast votes in Twitter survey,” we read in the article, which describes the entire process.
