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Damning report says broadband industry behind huge Net Neutrality astroturfing Chris Davies - May 6, 2021, 2:31pm CDT Around 1 in 5 of the 22 million comments submitted to the FTC about ending Net Neutrality were real, a multi-year investigation has concluded, intended to give the false impression that the public supported the idea. A newly-published report by the New York Attorney General’s Office blames the broadband industry for funding fake letters and impersonating real – and sometimes dead – Americans, in the hope of faking a wave of popular support. Net neutra...

AP The Office of the New York Attorney General said in a new report that a campaign funded by the broadband industry submitted millions of fake comments supporting the 2017 repeal of net neutrality. The Federal Communications Commission’s contentious 2017 repeal undid Obama-era rules that barred internet service providers from slowing or blocking websites and apps or charging companies more for faster speeds to consumers. The industry had sued to stop these rules before they were repealed but lost. The proceeding generated a record-breaking number of comments — more than 22 million — an...

Article content WASHINGTON — The broadband industry in 2017 funded a campaign that generated millions of fake comments to create the impression of grassroots opposition to net neutrality rules while the U.S. Federal Communications Commission considered repealing the policy, New York state’s attorney general said on Thursday. Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, said her office reached agreements with three companies involved in the scheme – Fluent Inc, Opt-Intelligence Inc and React2Media Inc – imposing penalties of $4.4 million and requiring them to adopt comprehensive reforms...

These lead generation companies used various deceptive techniques to capture people's personal information and entice them to submit it, like websites offering gift cards and other incentives. The websites were interleaved with forms to submit comments to the FCC in a way that was generally done without consent. The broadband companies that, through their lobbying group, Broadband for America, hired these firms, however, are not being penalized. "The OAG has not found evidence, however, that the broadband companies that funded and organized these lead generators had direct knowledge of fraud,...

Operator Good day, and welcome to the Fluent, Inc. fourth-quarter and fiscal-year 2020 conference call. [Operator instructions] Please note this event is being recorded. I would like now to turn the conference over to Ryan McCarthy of Fluent, Inc. Please go ahead. Corporate Counsel -- Analyst Good afternoon, and welcome. Thank you for joining us to discuss our fourth-quarter and full-year 2020 earnings results. Joining me on today's call are Fluent's CEO, Ryan Schulke; and our CFO, Alex Mandel. Our call will begin with comments from Ryan Schulke and Alex Mandel, followed by a question-and-ans...