Claim: The Guardian deactivated its 2021 "Person of the Year" poll after J.K. Rowling took the lead.
Fact-check: Guardian didn't deactivate 'Person of the Year' poll because J.K. Rowling took the lead - Full Fact
Verdict: the article was not a poll but a request for readers to nominate their "person of the year". the responses were reported on 30 december, including ms rowling as a nominee. the guardian regularly runs similar articles and deactivates submissions after a period of time. it did not publish a tally of the results.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2022-01-04T00:00:00