How the Oct 28, 2026 review of Wedgewood Polls Admits Fabricating Midterm Polls Cited by National Outlets went
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Report a problem on the pageAll 2 findings
Quoted text is from the version of the page the reviewer saw.Fixed · 2
- FixedFactual accuracy · medium
Before “Its results were cited by national outlets and poll trackers, among them The New York Times, Newsweek, MS NOW, Politico and Decision Desk HQ.”
After “media list now includes Newsweek (slug: newsweek, description: "Among the outlets that had used Wedgewood polls") and Decision Desk HQ (slug: decision-desk-hq, description: "Removed 17 Wedgewood polls from its averages")”
Why it was flagged
The body text names Newsweek and Decision Desk HQ as outlets/trackers that used Wedgewood's polls, and Decision Desk HQ is described later in the same paragraph as removing 17 polls from its averages, but neither is included in the frontmatter's media or institutions entity lists (only FiftyPlusOne, The New York Times, MS NOW and Politico are listed). This is an internal inconsistency: readers following the page's linked entities would not find Newsweek or Decision Desk HQ, even though the text treats them as directly involved parties on the same footing as the listed outlets.
What was done
Added Newsweek and Decision Desk HQ as media entity references in the frontmatter, matching the cited sources (the TIME article for Newsweek having used Wedgewood's polls, and the Ynetnews article for Decision Desk HQ removing 17 of them from its averages). Neither has an entity page yet; per the timeline collection's conventions, an entity reference naming a page that doesn't exist yet is a lint warning, not an error, and records a page worth writing later.
- FixedLabeling · low
Before “FCC chairman who warned broadcasters about airing fake polls”
After “FCC chairman who warned broadcasters about airing what he called fake polls”
Why it was flagged
The person-entry description for Brendan Carr states 'fake polls' as a plain characterization, dropping the attribution the page's own frontmatter description uses for the same phrase ('what he called fake polls'). Since FCC Commissioner Gomez disputes the breadth of Carr's 'fake polls' framing in the body text, this entity-field description should carry the same attribution (e.g., 'warned broadcasters about airing what he called fake polls') or quote the term directly, rather than stating it as settled fact.
What was done
Added the same attribution hedge used in the page's main description, so the Brendan Carr entity description now reads consistently with it and does not state his characterization of the polls as settled fact.