The UK’s Bible Society used fake polling data to produce a 2024 report that said church attendance was booming.

(It, dear reader, was not)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/28/how-fraudulent-church-data-revealed-ais-threat-to-polling

‘Our assumptions are broken’: how fraudulent church data revealed AI’s threat to polling

Experts say paid participants are using automated tools to generate unreliable survey responses at scale

The Guardian
@NewtonMark A church lied about something? Well, I never!