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Sean Hannity has reportedly been reprimanded by Fox News for using inaccurate online polls to try to prove that Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in Monday night?s debate.

Hours after the debate, Hannity said ?I?ll give you the list of polls. Time Magazine, Drudge report, CNBC, The Hill, CBS. The only one that has Hillary winning is CNN and they?re the Clinton News Network anyway.?

Hannity claimed that ?hundreds of thousands if not millions? of participants chose Trump as the victor in various online polls. However, professional pollsters say that the number of respondents is not nearly as important as whether the respondents reflect the population that the poll is claiming to represent.

Fox News hosts Steve Doocy and Martha MacCallum also misrepresented the polls on their programs. Doocy said ?I think a majority of the online polls show, according to the stuff we saw this morning, they show that he?s leading,? later adding as an afterthought that ?It?s not scientific.?

MacCallum didn?t identify her sources as online polls at all, saying only that ?A lot of polls show him winning last night,? she said. ?Fascinating, right? It?s fascinating.?

A memo from Fox News vice president of public-opinion research Dana Blanton has since been acquired by Business Insider, in which the VP tells the hosts to stop citing these misleading polls.

?As most of the publications themselves clearly state, the sample obviously can?t be representative of the electorate because they only reflect the views of those Internet users who have chosen to participate,? Blanton wrote. ?Another problem ? we know some campaigns/groups of supporters encourage people to vote in online polls and flood the results? These quickie click items do not meet our editorial standards.?

?News networks and other organizations go to great effort and rigor to conduct scientific polls ? for good reason,? Blanton continued. ?They know quick vote items posted on the web are nonsense, not true measures of public opinion.?

Despite this memo, Hannity and other Fox News hosts continued to use online polls during their segments Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.

?You?ve got this list of polls, Donald Trump wins,? Hannity said. ?You watch TV, Hillary Clinton wins.?

Fox News Vice President to Hannity: Stop using bullshit polls claiming Trump won debate