2024 Presidential Election

Google's AI Mode dodges direct answers on some past US presidential election winners

Testing by Ars Technica found Google's AI Mode responded to queries about who won certain presidential elections, including 2020, 2024 and 2012, by directing users to outside sources like the FEC rather than stating a winner directly. The same tool answered questions about other elections, including those from 2000 through 2016, with direct, correct responses. Different staffers at the outlet got inconsistent results depending on which election years they asked about.

arstechnica.com · 2026-10-28

Pew Research finds no single method reliably filters fake respondents from opt-in polls

Pew Research Center tested three techniques for detecting bogus respondents in online opt-in surveys: attention-check trap questions, CloudResearch's proprietary Sentry prescreening system, and matching respondents to a national voter file. The study, based on a survey of 11,114 U.S. adults fielded Nov. 14-19, 2024, evaluated each method against measures like yea-saying, open-ended response quality, and response order effects, as well as their impact on 2024 election turnout and vote-choice estimates.

pewresearch.org · 2026-09-22