Made-Up Pollster Trolled the New York Times for Four Months
A Made-Up Pollster Trolled the New York Times for Four Months By TechPulse USA News Desk | October 24, 2026 For four months, one of America's most trusted newsrooms published election polls from a company that was making them up. Not massaging them, not leaning on dodgy samples — inventing them outright. The confession arrived this week, ten days before the November 3 midterms, and it lands with the subtlety of a thrown brick: "most" of Wedgewood Polls' data, the firm admitted, was fabricated. The admission didn't come from a regulator, an investigative committee, or a whistleblower. It came after a single polling aggregator asked questions. Which raises the uglier question: if Wedgewood could fool the New York Times for a third of a year with numbers it pulled out of thin air, what else is sitting in election trackers right now? The New York Times Building in Manhattan. The paper removed 15 Wedgewood Polls surveys from its polling tracker this week after...
