For months, a small, little-known polling outfit called Wedgewood Polls appeared to be doing everything right. Founded quietly and operating on the fringes of the political data world, it nonetheless managed to get its surveys picked up by some of the most respected polling aggregators in American politics: The New York Times, the Silver Bulletin, the election-analysis Substack run by Nate Silver, and others. Its numbers looked timely, relevant, and plausible, covering high-profile races and feeding the endless appetite for political insight. Then, in a single statement on X, the whole thing unraveled. Wedgewood admitted that almost all of its…

The internet has a way of turning raw emotion into a storm, and few things stir that storm more than crime, punishment, and the possibility of vigilante-style justice. Over the last few days, social media users have been sharing a dramatic claim about Vickrum Digwa, the man who killed Henry Nowak. According to posts on Facebook and Instagram, Digwa had been attacked while in prison. The posts claimed that a mixture of sugar and boiling water was thrown into his face, causing serious burns. To make it look more credible, the story was attached to a photo of Digwa with…