{"id":28027,"date":"2017-11-26T08:22:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T14:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=28027"},"modified":"2017-12-05T20:06:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T02:06:17","slug":"foreign-power-hack-time-person-year-reader-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/26\/foreign-power-hack-time-person-year-reader-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Did a foreign power hack the TIME Person of the Year reader poll?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that there is a reader poll that you can visit to give the thumbs up or down for each prospect on a fairly long mid-list of possible persons of they year? Click here to participate<\/a> (will open in a new tab or window). I have no idea how much influence, if any, this poll has on the final decision. But this year, the poll was clearly hacked and I assume that will be taken into consideration.<\/p>\n

Have a look at the results so far, as of this writing:<\/p>\n

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Mohammed bin Salman is the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. Somewhere in Saudi Arabia there is a room full of women in purda and being carefully overseen, clicking on this poll and deleting their cookies, again and again and again.<\/p>\n

Putting aside the Prince for now, note who are in second, third, and fourth place! Wow. A movement, a repressed class, and an African American rebel. Next in line is the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Then comes Mueller and Clinton. So, the top six presumably non-hacked names are explicitly and firmly anti-Trump.<\/p>\n

Trump himself is 8th\/9th, nearly tied with the Pope, Come, and Putin. Sad to see the new leader of the Free World, Angela Merkel, down at 3%. Near the very bottom is a mix of people one would not normally see on this list at all, so good on them. And, Steve Bannon, not quite last but close to it.<\/p>\n

Just for fun, here are a few fake Time magazine covers of some of the people me and my various Facebook friends were thinking should be selected.<\/p>\n

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You can find a few others here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, somebody call somebody about Time’s poll being hacked!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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