Fake Polling Firm Scandal & Serbia Spyware — Disinformation Double-Header
A US polling firm admitted fabricating most of its election surveys and claimed it was an experiment; meanwhile, Serbian opposition figures were targeted with NSO Pegasus spyware days before elections.
What we know
Wedgewood Polling confessed to fabricating most of its surveys, claiming it was testing media scrutiny — but the fake data had already entered major polling averages including the NYT's. Separately, Citizen Lab reported that two prominent Serbian government critics, including the rector of the University of Belgrade, had their phones infected with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware just days before Serbia's October 25 parliamentary election.
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