Polygraph

On AirNo. 1Election fraud

6The 2020 election was won by fraud

That the 2020 presidential election was won through fraud rather than by the vote count.

← All eight claims

Carried by 204 shows from Jul 27 to Oct 28. Repeated against rebutted:

Listeners

402,899repeated
1,474,477rebutted

3.7× as many rebutting it. Plus 2,856,363 reporting or discussing it without taking a side.

Hours

14 hrrepeated
9.8 hrrebutted

1.4× as many repeating it. Plus 16 hr reporting or discussing it without taking a side.

Segments

80repeated
92rebutted

1.1× as many rebutting it. Plus 126 reporting or discussing it without taking a side.

Day by day

Day by day

92 segments rebutted it. 80 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 11 Polygraph checks the claim on Badlands Media: False.

In the week from that day, 10 segments repeated it and 11 rebutted it; in the week before, 7 and 4. Polygraph

Aug 14 Polygraph checks the claim on The Health Ranger Report: False.

In the week from that day, 9 segments repeated it and 5 rebutted it; in the week before, 7 and 13. Polygraph

Sep 28 Kurt Olsen, a 2020 election denier, leaves the Justice Department’s “grand conspiracy” probe.

In the week from that day, 6 segments repeated it and 11 rebutted it; in the week before, 6 and 2. Boston Globe

Oct 26 Polygraph checks the claim on The Kuhner Report: False.

In the week from that day, 5 segments repeated it and 3 rebutted it; in the week before, 2 and 10. Polygraph

6 segments repeated it on Jul 27, 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

↑ Repeated
↓ Rebutted

Source: Polygraph read of podcast segments; segments, Particle

  1. 1Aug 11. Polygraph checks the claim on Badlands Media: False. Polygraph
  2. 2Aug 14. Polygraph checks the claim on The Health Ranger Report: False. Polygraph
  3. 3Sep 28. Kurt Olsen, a 2020 election denier, leaves the Justice Department’s “grand conspiracy” probe. Boston Globe
  4. 4Oct 26. Polygraph checks the claim on The Kuhner Report: False. Polygraph
  5. 5Oct 28. Polygraph checks the claim on Bannon`s War Room: False. 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

Shows75%25%
Listeners95%

Rebutted

Shows63%33%
Listeners40%60%

Repeated · 48 shows

76% of the 402,899 listeners from the biggest, Bannon`s War Room; 87% from the top three.

Rebutted · 76 shows

36% of the 1,474,477 listeners from the biggest, The New Yorker Radio Hour; 60% from the top three.

What Polygraph found

Polygraph checked it 4 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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