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Rovai: Poder 360's polls are fake news.

"Datapoder doesn't go into the field with researchers. It uses a method of robots making phone calls. When receiving the call, the interviewee has to keep pressing keys to answer yes or no to a large questionnaire," says Renato Rovai in Fórum.

Rovai: Poder 360's research is fake news (Photo: Dir.: ABR)

247 - In an article in Fórum, Renato Rovai questions the presidential polls conducted by Poder 360, a website he describes as "a media outlet that doesn't have advertising, but which holds meetings between representatives of Shell and the president of the Supreme Federal Court, Cármen Lúcia."

“Datapoder doesn’t go into the field with researchers. It uses a method of robots making phone calls. When receiving the call, the interviewee has to keep pressing keys to answer yes or no to a large questionnaire,” says Rovai. “This, according to experts, ends up excluding simpler voters with less education from the survey, and at the same time those who would vote for a candidate but are not politically engaged enough to keep pressing a multitude of keys to answer a long questionnaire.”

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