[apexauk]

P.s. I don't mean this to be focused on religion. The interesting question to me is "is it legit to host an online poll backed by a significant ad campaign and present fake results?" If it helps, try imagining that this is a poll by some other brand asking "Do you think our product is the best?" and presenting you with what they make out to be what other people think.

Seems to me like this is deceiving the public. How do poll results (or not) relate to advertising standards laws?

[ErrantX]

It's called publicity: they have a product to "sell" to us.

It's wrong (in this case probably morally) but how do we stop everyone doing it :(

[apexauk]

Say Apple hosted an online "poll" asking "Are our laptops the best? Yes/No/Probably" with a "see results so far" link. Would that be "publicity"? Or would it land them in the poo legally?

[michaelparks2]

Look at the stats again. They are definitely not fixed.

[pbhjpbhj]

try imagining that this is a poll by some other brand asking "Do you think our product is the best?"

Of course it's not a poll for a product at all.