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4 reasons why social media election data can misread public opinion

  • Written by Joseph Cabosky, Assistant Professor of Public Relations, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Online discussion doesn’t always accurately reflect the real political landscape.Russ Vance/Shutterstock.com

I often encounter myths and misunderstandings about political data, whether it’s in the classes I teach or broader news coverage.

A common one is that polls these days are all wrong. But, as the news website FiveThirtyEight has...

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