Polygraph

On AirNo. 1Election fraud

5Voter fraud is widespread

That voter fraud in general is widespread in U.S. elections, with no particular state or scheme named.

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Carried by 327 shows from Jul 27 to Oct 28. Repeated against rebutted:

Listeners

2,661,787repeated
9,264,645rebutted

3.5× as many rebutting it. Plus 5,947,126 reporting or discussing it without taking a side.

Hours

13 hrrepeated
22 hrrebutted

1.7× as many rebutting it. Plus 12 hr reporting or discussing it without taking a side.

Segments

128repeated
207rebutted

1.6× as many rebutting it. Plus 139 reporting or discussing it without taking a side.

Day by day

Day by day

207 segments rebutted it. 128 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.

Sep 4 The Justice Department charges five people in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Wisconsin over noncitizen voting.

In the week from that day, 2 segments repeated it and 9 rebutted it; in the week before, 8 and 14. Votebeat

Oct 21 A federal judge halts the administration’s noncitizen-voter investigations in nine states, Nevada and California among them.

In the week from that day, 33 segments repeated it and 43 rebutted it; in the week before, 10 and 23. AJC / AP

Oct 26 The Justice Department says it has charged 48 noncitizens with election crimes.

In the week from that day, 27 segments repeated it and 32 rebutted it; in the week before, 19 and 37. Spectrum News

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. 1Sep 4. The Justice Department charges five people in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Wisconsin over noncitizen voting. Votebeat
  2. 2Oct 21. A federal judge halts the administration’s noncitizen-voter investigations in nine states, Nevada and California among them. AJC / AP
  3. 3Oct 26. The Justice Department says it has charged 48 noncitizens with election crimes. Spectrum News

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

Shows69%27%
Listeners94%

Rebutted

Shows61%34%
Listeners15%85%

Repeated · 86 shows

71% of the 2,661,787 listeners from the biggest, The Dan Bongino Show; 87% from the top three.

Rebutted · 165 shows

39% of the 9,264,645 listeners from the biggest, Up First from NPR; 74% 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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