Progressive Francesca Hong was seen as a front-runner in the primary to be the Democratic nominee for Wisconsin governor, but went on to lose.

Median Strategies, which billed itself as a trustworthy, non-partisan polling company, projected that Ms Hong had a more than 20-point lead over moderate David Crowley.

However, on Aug 11, she narrowly lost to Mr Crowley, handing establishment Democrats a win following a wave of victories by Left-wing candidates.

Median Strategies has now admitted the polling data were faked and part of a “short-term social experiment”, following a report by The Los Angeles Times.

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    6 days ago

    Yep we restrict speech all the time, the usual example being yelling “fire” in a crowded theater.

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      6 days ago

      we restrict speech all the time, the usual example being yelling “fire” in a crowded theater.

      Is “we criminalize making people panic and stampede to exits where the crush of people is deadly, so let’s criminalize this speech too” your argument as well as being a false equivalence?