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Nearly 18 Million Comments Urging Net Neutrality Repeal Were Fake, Report Says

Nearly 18 Million Comments Urging Net Neutrality Repeal Were Fake, Report Says On 5/6/21 at 1:02 PM EDT Associated Press reported. The Federal Communications Commission s (FCC) repeal of the rules allowed internet service providers to once again slow or block websites and apps or charge companies more for faster speeds to consumers. More than 22 million comments resulted from the repeal proceedings, 18 million of which the attorney general s office found were fabricated. Broadband for America, an industry group, spent $4.2 million generating more than half of the fake FCC comments, and a half-million fake letters were sent to Congress, according to the attorney general. The agency is supposed to use the comments it receives, from industry and public-industry groups and the public, to shape how it makes its rules.

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

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 influence campaign by the broadband industry, New York Attorney General Letitia James found in a 39-page report released on Thursday. Some 8.5 million of the fake comments used the names and personal information of real people without their knowledge or consent, she added.

The Facebook oversight board s Trump decision blew up in its face — Quartz

May 6, 2021 Facebook’s oversight board seemed like the perfect answer to the social media giant’s moderation headaches: An outside group of respected experts in journalism, misinformation, free speech, and extremism would make the final call on high-profile moderation decisions. That would give the company cover to duck responsibility for controversial cases. Meanwhile, Facebook would be free to ignore the board’s policy recommendations, allowing it to maintain the moderation status quo. The board refused to accept its role as the company’s lightning rod by kicking the decision back to Facebook. It upheld the company’s initial choice to block Trump from posting in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the US capitol, but handed responsibility for deciding Trump’s fate back to Zuckerberg and his executive team. “In applying a vague, standardless penalty and then referring this case to the Board to resolve, Facebook seeks to avoid its responsibilities,” the 19-

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