The 2016 presidential race has already started, and with it the debates. Many news programs have taken the opportunity to report it. It doesn’t seem like a big deal, unless their reporting is biased.

Since the Democratic debate on October 13, many people have discovered an odd trend. Quite a lot posts are floating around the Internet, depicting headlines from major news networks. These articles claim candidate Hillary Clinton won this debate. Next to them sits online polls, showing that Bernie Sanders, another candidate, won in a landslide.

It shows about five different sites repeating this trend, including CNN News. The Internet was again spurred when CNN deleted the poll shown in the pictures.

With a bit of research, people found that Time Warner Cable, the broadcaster of CNN News, is the seventh biggest financial reporter for Hillary Clinton.

Commenters on these posts claim unfair bias, and I agree. While declaring the winner of a debate can be considered an opinion, your employer shouldn’t bias that opinion so much so that they need to delete the evidence supporting the other side.

An article on www.politifact.com claims otherwise, saying that CNN’s poll was still on their Facebook page, just not their main website. “It’s not on CNN’s website, but it’s not clear that it ever was on CNN’s website,” they say. This infuriated the post creators, and many claimed that the screenshots taken had no possibility of coming from Facebook.

Whether or not the poll was ever deleted, it says a lot about the influence that can happen on the news, and how quickly a few attentive internet-users can find out. Nonetheless, news programs have a new enemy to fear.