False Claim: CNN Deletes Pro-Sanders Poll

[sufrommich]

The story was posted on October 15, 2015 on the website Nation of Change in response to the Democratic Presidential debate which was held on October 13. The story asserts that CNN was “under fire” for deleting a poll which showed Bernie Sanders winning with a 75% vote in the online poll. “…the poll disappeared, only to be replaced by a pro-Hillary headline story,” the article claimed.

That poll was not posted on the CNN website, but on their Facebook page, and it is still there as of October 18, 2015. It shows Sanders with an 81% showing in the poll.

While the poll wasn’t deleted, a pro-Hillary headline did appear on CNN after the debate. CNN’s Jeremy Diamond proclaimed Hillary Clinton as the winner, which agreed with only a small minority of those who participated in the Facebook poll.

BOTTOM LINE

CNN did not delete a poll which showed Bernie Sanders as the winner of a recent Democratic Presidential debate. The poll can still be found on Facebook days later. A CNN opinion piece, did, however disagree with the poll and tap Clinton as the debate’s winner.



The poll is still there.

Waiting for the public debunking of " ZOMG,CNN changed the debate from 9:00 to 8:30!!!!!!"



http://wafflesatnoon.com/cnn-deletes-pro-sanders-poll/

[BootinUp]

1. Well ok, but

thermite still brought the WTC down.

[NuclearDem]

2. Detonated by the guy on the grassy knoll.

[sufrommich]

3. Who was psychologically manipulated using chemtrails.nt

[NCTraveler]

23. Gowdy is currently composing an email to look like it is from Hillary....

in order to give this story more firepower.

[sufrommich]

24. Lol.

[AgingAmerican]

4. CNN thought control

nt

[72DejaVu]

5. I don't believe that

How do I know that my corporate owned internet company isn't just making it LOOK like the poll is still there, when really they took it down to hide the fact that there are only 4 people in America who don't feel the bern?

[AgingAmerican]

6. They had to re post it because it blew up in their faces

[72DejaVu]

7. Yeah, that was it.

They were humiliated by all the temper tantrums on a few web sites.

[sufrommich]

8. Are you being serious? nt

[JaneyVee]

9. Unfortunately, yes.

[Sheepshank]

14. Clearly, it's important to reinforce the woo.

Even if it means making up shit to do so. A serious lack of evidence should never stand in the way of a good conspiracy. There's jusy not enough tin foil in this primary season.

[George II]

10. Was there ever evidenced that it was taken down? If not, it's obviously not a "re post"

[sufrommich]

11. You're obviously a victim of CNN thought control.

[riversedge]

25. ha ha. paranoid post

[uponit7771]

12. But is she winning all 50 states though!? no?! well there it is then!! /sarcasm

[That Guy 888]

15. I saw the poll on cnn.com, NOT facebook

Maybe it was linked from their facebook page, but I avoid facebook like the plague. A google search doesn't show the poll on their actual website cnn.com.

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Maybe I used the wrong search terms, or maybe it's no longer linked through cnn.com?

[sufrommich]

16. The poll was never on CNN's page. nt

[That Guy 888]

18. Once again, I do not Facebook. n/t

[sufrommich]

19. Snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/bernie-sanders-cnn-poll/

[That Guy 888]

20. Sorry, but I did not watch the debate on facebook

I watched the debate on cnn.com. Maybe there was a link to the facebook page(did CNN confirm that the poll was only on facebook?) , why would I watch the debate on facebook when I don't (and won't) have an account there?

[sufrommich]

22. Nobody watched the debate on Facebook.You don't

have to have a Facebook account to vote on their Facebook poll.Bernie supporters even instructed other supporters to vote on CNN s facebook page:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251680259

[That Guy 888]

26. I know that you don't watch the debate on facebook...

That's my point, they(meaning cnn) may have linked to the poll from facebook (again, if that is the case*) and that confused people including me. Since I don't do facebook, I wouldn't have seen the instructions telling me where to vote.


*So far, I've only seen this reported by wafflesatnoon which may have found the old poll on cnn's facebook page while trying to prove that the poll didn't get deleted, and snopes, which doesn't do anything but link to the facebook page. That doesn't prove to me that the poll was never linked, embeded, or even originally hosted at cnn.com.

[sufrommich]

27. I just gave you a link to Snopes that says exactly

the same thing,do you distrust Snopes too? The poll was never on the CNN page,you got linked to the CNN facebook poll,WHICH IS STILL THERE,do you deny that it's still there? Sheesh.

[That Guy 888]

28. Sheesh indeed...

If you looked on the page for the debate when it happened, it didn't say anything about facebook it was all cnn. cnn showed the poll through it's website, then later removed the linked results. Did they delete the poll? No, but they did apparently stop showing it on cnn.com. IS IT STILL LINKED TO CNN?one!

[sufrommich]

29. Never mind.You believe what you want to believe.nt

[That Guy 888]

30. Same to you

Where it is now doesn't prove where it was. I'm accessing du from my home; that doesn't prove that I never accessed du from a public library or a wi-fi device outside my home.

Visually, without getting into linking and embedding and all that, the poll was displayed with the debate. That is all I am responding to. Some people in the Hillary group have been going out of their way to paint Sanders supporters as racists, angry, paranoid, etc. The OP seemed to be doing this as well. My post is about my observations. If you display the poll with the cnn.com debate page, why not keep them linked?

[NCTraveler]

21. What? Say it aint so. lol. nt.