Graduate student at UMass Amherst.

Joined January 2022
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).
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: bit.ly/3VYVGTy @manningcics
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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: bit.ly/3VYVGTy @manningcics
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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. 🧵1/5
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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): arxiv.org/abs/2405.11146 🧵5/5
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