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A new report by New York Attorney General Letitia James has revealed that the US broadband industry funded millions of fake comments – impersonating real people – to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2017, opposing net neutrality. The report, titled “Fake Comments: How U.S. Companies & Partisans Hack Democracy to Undermine Your Voice”, revealed that a non-profit called Broadband for America – made up of senior officials from broadband companies and trade groups – spent ...

Broadband Companies Paid for 8.5 Million Fake Comments on Repeal of ‘Net Neutrality’: New York AG The New York Attorney General’s office said in a Thursday report that a campaign funded by the broadband industry submitted millions of fake comments supporting the 2017 repeal of net neutrality. The report (pdf), headlined “How U.S. Companies & Partisans Hack Democracy to Undermine Your Voice,” concluded that nearly 18 million of the more than 22 million comments that the Federal Communi...

minute read Share this article: NY’s AG: Millions of fake comments – in favor and against – came from a secret broadband-funded campaign or from a 19-year-old’s fake identities. Broadband providers and a 19-year-old college student were among those who successfully hijacked public comments during a crucial decision-making process in 2017 to overturn net neutrality by flooding the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with fraudulent comments indicating their position on ...

The FCC Received 22 Million Comments on the Year of Vote to Repeal Net Neutrality. Nearly 18 Million Were Fake, Says New York’s Attorney General. Adam Klasfeld © Provided by Law & Crime New York Attorney General Letitia James On the year former President Trump’s Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal net neutrality, the regulator was inundated with more than 22 million comments. Nearly 18 million of them were fake, and some 40 percent of those came from an infl...

Broadband Companies Faked Anti-Net Neutrality FCC Comments, Report Says Of the 22 million comments submitted during the public comment period, around 18 million were not genuine, a state attorney generals office says. New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office has revealed after an extensive investigation that the vast majority ― around 80% ― of comments made to the Federal Communications Commission about proposed changes to net neutrality laws were faked. Around 40%, or 8.5 million ...