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A polling company that claimed Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass held a commanding lead over challenger Nithya Raman just admitted the whole thing was fake, an elaborate experiment designed to test how bogus data spreads through politics unchecked.<\/p>\n

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Median Strategies showing Bass leading Raman by nearly 12 points ahead of November’s runoff, claiming a 560-voter sample and a 4.1% margin of error. When the Los Angeles Times pressed for verification, the company came clean.<\/p>\n

“Median Strategies was created as a short-term social experiment to examine how purported polling information could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification,” the company said, according to the Times.<\/p>\n

The fake poll also claimed 85% of voters who’d backed right-wing mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt in the primary now favored Bass, a detail that led to headlines suggesting Pratt’s supporters could swing the race. Bass’s own campaign took the bait, posting the results on X with a triumphant message, before quietly deleting it once the fabrication came to light.<\/p>\n

“Doing the work, showing up, and gaining momentum. Let’s do this, LA!” Bass had posted, citing Median Strategies by name.<\/p>\n

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A Bass campaign spokesperson later called for any “bad faith attempts to influence elections” to be investigated and prosecuted.<\/p>\n

The stunt wasn’t a one-off. Median launched on social media just days earlier with only about 20 followers, first releasing a fabricated poll showing Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong leading Wisconsin’s governor’s primary race by more than 20 points \u2014 a race Hong ultimately lost. The company brushed off that miss publicly before rolling out its fictional L.A. numbers the very next day.<\/p>\n

The L.A. mayoral race has been shaping up to be a heated contest. Raman, a city councilwoman, has accused Bass of obstructing progress on solving the city’s housing crisis and conspiring with her political allies to force Raman out of a key homelessness oversight role in retaliation for running against her.<\/p>\n

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