Polygraph

On AirNo. 1Election fraud

4Noncitizens are voting in California

That noncitizens are registering or voting in California in large numbers. The Justice Department sued the state over mail ballots from 20,000 people it calls noncitizens.

← All eight claims

Carried by 271 shows from Jul 27 to Oct 28. Repeated against rebutted:

Listeners

1,486,851repeated
6,881,841rebutted

4.6× as many rebutting it. Plus 8,841,311 reporting or discussing it without taking a side.

Hours

28 hrrepeated
14 hrrebutted

2.1× as many repeating it. Plus 20 hr reporting or discussing it without taking a side.

Segments

221repeated
109rebutted

2.0× as many repeating it. Plus 210 reporting or discussing it without taking a side.

Day by day

Day by day

221 segments repeated it. 109 rebutted it.

Each column is one day. Segments that repeated the claim stack up from the line, segments that rebutted it hang below; the numbered marks are the dated events.

Aug 25 Polygraph checks the claim on The Rob Carson Show: False.

In the week from that day, 8 segments repeated it and 0 rebutted it; in the week before, 11 and 1. Polygraph

Sep 24 California’s Supreme Court orders Sheriff Chad Bianco to return 650,000 seized ballots.

In the week from that day, 8 segments repeated it and 1 rebutted it; in the week before, 3 and 0. Santa Barbara Independent

Oct 15 The Justice Department sues California to stop it counting mail ballots from 20,000 people it calls noncitizens.

In the week from that day, 109 segments repeated it and 55 rebutted it; in the week before, 0 and 3. Al Jazeera

Oct 28 Polygraph checks the claim on Bongino Report Early Edition with Evita: Can’t tell.

In the week from that day, 9 segments repeated it and 4 rebutted it; in the week before, 80 and 48. Polygraph

37 segments repeated it on Oct 20, its busiest day.

Day by day

Segments a day

Repeated above the line, rebutted below. Jul 27 – Oct 28

Segments a day

Repeated above the line, rebutted below. Jul 27 – Oct 28

Segments a day

Repeated above the line, rebutted below. Jul 27 – Oct 28

Segments a day

Repeated above the line, rebutted below. Jul 27 – Oct 28

Segments a day

Repeated above the line, rebutted below. Jul 27 – Oct 28

Segments a day

Repeated above the line, rebutted below. Jul 27 – Oct 28

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Source: Polygraph read of podcast segments; segments, Particle

  1. 1Aug 25. Polygraph checks the claim on The Rob Carson Show: False. Polygraph
  2. 2Sep 24. California’s Supreme Court orders Sheriff Chad Bianco to return 650,000 seized ballots. Santa Barbara Independent
  3. 3Oct 15. The Justice Department sues California to stop it counting mail ballots from 20,000 people it calls noncitizens. Al Jazeera
  4. 4Oct 28. Polygraph checks the claim on Bongino Report Early Edition with Evita: Can’t tell. Polygraph

Who carried it

Every show that repeated it, above the line, and every show that rebutted it, below, placed by the show’s size: its estimated listeners an episode. A bigger dot is more segments; the three biggest carriers on each side are named.

↑ Repeated it↓ Rebutted it

Show size: estimated listeners an episode →

Show size, estimated listeners an episode:Under 1,0001,000 to 100,000100,000 and up

Repeated

Shows73%23%
Listeners23%75%

Rebutted

Shows46%47%
Listeners13%87%

Repeated · 111 shows

36% of the 1,486,851 listeners from the biggest, The Charlie Kirk Show; 65% from the top three.

Rebutted · 79 shows

52% of the 6,881,841 listeners from the biggest, Up First from NPR; 75% from the top three.

What Polygraph found

Polygraph checked it 2 times

About these numbers

Each segment’s side is read from its podcast-index entry, its title and summary, not the audio. Segments that report or discuss the claim without taking a side are counted apart. Hours on air is the length of the segments as the index cuts them: time on the subject, not seconds spent saying the claim.

Listeners is an estimate of each episode’s audience, modelled from the show’s followers and summed over the episodes that carried a side, each episode once. Treat it as an order of magnitude. Lean is the show’s rating. Source: Particle.

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