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

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 Stephens_AI, Vijayalakshmi V, Mattia Samory, Kevin Yang, JungHwan Yang): arxiv.org/abs/2405.11146 🧵5/5

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 Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences

Thrilled to share this press release of UMass Amherst about our research revealing questionable votes and biases in tens of thousands of US presidential #election polls on X (conducted w Stephens_AI, Vijayalakshmi V, Mattia Samory, Kevin Yang, JungHwan Yang).