Analyzing Support for U.S. Presidential Candidates in Twitter Polls
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Published in Journal of Quantitative Description Digital Media · View the paper (DOI)
Research by the University of Massachusetts Amherst team found that social media polls consistently predicted a landslide election win for Trump in both 2016 and 2020 presidential contests. The polls were predominantly crafted by males with a bias for Trump, and purchasing votes from troll farms was common.
Coverage from 2 institutions
- Social media polls deliberately skew political realities of 2016, 2020 US presidential elections, finds research team led by UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst · Jul 16, 2024 · first to report
- Will social media polls accurately predict the winner of the U.S. presidential election? University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau · Jul 30, 2024