Last night’spresidential debatebetween Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton was forecasted to be a rhetorical slugfest . But adjudicate by the word salads advanced by Trump , Clinton marched to triumph base on most analysis . cyberspace polls , however , did n’t quite agree .
Immediately travel along the disputation , an instant crown fromCNN / ORC showed Clinton give Trump a decisive expiration , beating him by 35 % . Tuesday sunrise , however , told a different report : Twitter was buzzing with meme claiming # TrumpWon , and a slew of spectacular post - debate public opinion poll show thesniffling billionairewinning handedly .
How then , is this actually happening ? According to theDaily Dot , Reddit and 4Chan users barrage post - debate polls in a coordinated feat to limn Trump as the achiever . If you follow Trump on Twitter , you ’re aware that a stampede of trolls are there , salivating at his every ( sorry ! ) comment . Reddit is its own seaport for Trumpkins too , as the / r / The_Donaldthread maintains about 200,000 reader . Thelargest Clinton subreddit , on the other hand , keep only about 28,000 .
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Last night at about midnight EST , aPolls digest Megathreadsprang up on /r / The_Donald , obviously with the intent of driving Trump supporters to the on-line polls en masse shot . The effects are obvious – reflect inTwitter pollsthat see Trump eeking out a narrow winnings and alsodominating the debateby considerable percentage . The manipulated polls seem to asses presidential disposition by how many meter oneinterrupts an opponent .
As The Daily Dot steer out , on-line polls – specifically those of a non - scientific variety – are not to be trusted . They ’re easily manipulate , and any minor security metre can be breached by but opening a new window in your web browser app , make multiple accounts , delete your cookies , and so on and so away .
It ’s a sad reality , but in an election season this saturated with passing water and on-line schadenfreude , it ’s anything but unexpected .
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Sam Blum is a News Staff Writer for Thrillist . He ’s also a soldierly arts and music nerd who appreciates a okay sandwich and cunning dogs . Find his clip in The Guardian , Rolling Stone , The A.V. Club and Vice . He ’s on Twitter@Blumnessmonster .
