On Wednesday, I wrote about the exposure of fake pollster Wedgewood Polls by polling aggregator FiftyPlusOne. Yesterday, the team uncovered another questionable pollster, SoCal Strategies, which was apparently associated with Wedgewood. Shortly after FiftyPlusOne interviewed a person affiliated with the firm, its entire web presence disappeared, including its website, Twitter account, and Substack.
In response, FiftyPlusOne announced that it would remove two suspicious polls from its database, though earlier surveys conducted by the organization will remain. The allegations apparently concerned only a subset of the firm’s polls.