Christopher Deason stumbled upon the psychological questionnaire on June 9, 2014. He was taking a lot of online surveys back then, each one earning him a few dollars to help pay the bills. Nothing about this one, which he saw on an online job platform, struck him as “creepy or […] Read more »
How Facebook Helps Shady Advertisers Pollute the Internet
They’d come to mingle with thousands of affiliate marketers—middlemen who buy online ad space in bulk, run their campaigns, and earn commissions for each sale they generate. … The Berlin conference was hosted by an online forum called Stack That Money, but a newcomer could be forgiven for wondering if […] Read more »
The Public Says Good-Bye to the Trump Voter-Fraud Commission: Introduction to a Series
This post begins a four-part series about some public opinion research I recently did to gauge attitudes about the termination of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. … To whet your appetite for what is to come, here’s the executive summary of the whole series: Respondents were slightly more […] Read more »
Poll Hub: Triumph or Trumped?
… Despite a year marked by a job approval rating hovering in the thirties and a majority of Americans rating Trump’s presidency as a “failure,” there are some bright spots for the president. What are they, and what impact could President Trump’s job approval rating have on the 2018 midterm […] Read more »
Much ado about nothing in Alabama ‘fraud’ charges
At the risk of being lost down a rabbit hole and subject to endless trolling, I just have to weigh in on the so-called evidence of vote fraud that was contained in Roy Moore’s court filing, in which he tried to get a delay in having the vote certified. (The […] Read more »
Voter fraud commission fails on all fronts
In an effort to provide support for his fact-free outbursts, President Trump appointed a commission to examine voter fraud. It turns out that the biggest fraud is the commission itself. CONT. Mark Mellman (Mellman Group), The Hill Read more »