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Ask HN: Why doesn't Google/Facebook release election polling results?
1 point by sigmaprimus on Nov 6, 2020 | hide | past | favorite
They already proved themselves with Cambridge Analytica, so I'm assuming they knew the real stats possibly weeks before the polls closed.

Is it privacy laws? What we get instead is obviously systemic activist polling which corrupts public perception.

Lesser of two evils?



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