The Polluters: How a 21 Year Old's Experiment Exposed the Vulnerability of Our Election Landscape The recent shutdown of Median Strategies, an anonymous website peddling fake election polling data, has left many in the political and media worlds perplexed.
A 21 year old recent college graduate, Rahil Prakash, was able to infiltrate the ecosystem of reputable polling organizations and have his fabricated results widely shared.
Prakash's success can be attributed not only to his ingenuity but also to the inherent vulnerabilities of our current system.