A body that presented itself as a polling company admitted that most of its data was fabricated, after it was quoted in the American media and incorporated into major polling databases • The "Times" removed 15 of the body's polls, and a candidate for the Senate in Michigan, who withdrew from the race after his poll showed her with only 9%, wrote: "It killed us" • Trump was quick to attack: "Everything about the failed New York Times is 'artificial'"