Polygraph

On AirNo. 1Election fraud

2Democrats win elections through fraud

That Democrats win elections through fraud: illegal voting, ballot harvesting or tampering with mail ballots.

← All eight claims

Carried by 46 shows from Jul 27 to Oct 28. Repeated against rebutted:

Listeners

3,142,681repeated
91,740rebutted

34.3× as many repeating it. Plus 928,962 reporting or discussing it without taking a side.

Hours

3.5 hrrepeated
50 minrebutted

4.2× as many repeating it. Plus 2.4 hr reporting or discussing it without taking a side.

Segments

32repeated
4rebutted

8.0× as many repeating it. Plus 18 reporting or discussing it without taking a side.

Day by day

Day by day

32 segments repeated it. 4 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.

6 segments repeated it on Oct 28, 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

↑ Repeated
↓ Rebutted

Source: Polygraph read of podcast segments; segments, Particle

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

Shows62%35%
Listeners99%

Rebutted

Shows50%50%
Listeners99%

Repeated · 26 shows

99% of the 3,142,681 listeners from the biggest, The Ben Shapiro Show; 99% from the top three.

Rebutted · 4 shows

92% of the 91,740 listeners from the biggest, The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell; 100% from the top three.

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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