{
  "id": 15970540,
  "title": "A company says its polls were fake. Here's what happened",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/a-company-says-its-polls-were-fake-heres-what-happened",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-21T22:50:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PBS NewsHour",
    "slug": "pbs-newshour",
    "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/a-company-says-its-polls-were-fake-heres-what-happened"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A national polling organization revealed on Tuesday that the vast majority of its data had been fabricated, saying it was an \"experimental project to demonstrate the vulnerabilities\" of the modern political polling industry.",
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}