Polygraph

On AirNo. 1Election fraud

7Mail ballots invite fraud

That mail ballots are open to fraud, and that this justifies restricting mail voting. The Supreme Court let the president’s mail-voting order go ahead for now.

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Carried by 356 shows from Jul 27 to Oct 28. Repeated against rebutted:

Listeners

4,790,845repeated
2,495,399rebutted

1.9× as many repeating it. Plus 8,072,279 reporting or discussing it without taking a side.

Hours

19 hrrepeated
21 hrrebutted

1.1× as many rebutting it. Plus 34 hr reporting or discussing it without taking a side.

Segments

139repeated
143rebutted

1.0× as many rebutting it. Plus 252 reporting or discussing it without taking a side.

Day by day

Day by day

143 segments rebutted it. 139 repeated 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 24 The Supreme Court lets the president’s mail-voting order go ahead for now, 6–3.

In the week from that day, 33 segments repeated it and 30 rebutted it; in the week before, 3 and 2. OPB

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

In the week from that day, 2 segments repeated it and 6 rebutted it; in the week before, 10 and 12. 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, 5 segments repeated it and 6 rebutted it; in the week before, 6 and 4. Al Jazeera

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

↑ Repeated
↓ Rebutted

Source: Polygraph read of podcast segments; segments, Particle

  1. 1Aug 24. The Supreme Court lets the president’s mail-voting order go ahead for now, 6–3. OPB
  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

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

Shows71%25%
Listeners92%

Rebutted

Shows48%49%
Listeners66%34%

Repeated · 92 shows

65% of the 4,790,845 listeners from the biggest, The Ben Shapiro Show; 90% from the top three.

Rebutted · 115 shows

14% of the 2,495,399 listeners from the biggest, Morning Joe; 33% 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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