Poll shows 94% Germans won't buy a Tesla due to Musk, then came a twist: 253,000 votes came from 2 IP addresses in US
Hindustan TimesAccoEvery other day, protests and incidents of hate are popping up in different cities across the US. To gauge the effects of these incidents beyond the US, German publication T-Online published a poll, asking Germans - “Would you still buy a Tesla?” The results on March 11 showed that around 94% of the one lakh respondents said “Absolutely not”. While the reasons behind the unexpected changes in the poll were initially unclear, the publication said that the number of views on the article and the number of survey respondents did not match. T-Online then found through an internal initial research that 2.53 lakh, or 54%, of the total polled votes came from just two IP addresses based in the US. It was also found that the links to the article and to the survey were shared “thousands of times” on X, a social media platform owned by Musk, and other social media networks.
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