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Law & Crime reports:
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 linked to 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.
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“The FCC Received 22 Million Comments on the Year of Vote to Repeal Net Neutrality. Nearly 18 Million Were Fake, Says @NewYorkStateAG.”
Some strong findings about the “Astroturf” campaign inside, along with the embedded report. https://t.co/bKcq7NInRE via @lawcrimenews
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 6, 2021
Fake comments accounted for 18 million of the 22 million the FCC received during the 2017 rollback of federal net neutrality rules, a New York attorney general investigation finds.
Millions were funded by a broadband industry campaign. https://t.co/V2OKbx0jdc
— Axios (@axios) May 6, 2021
After a multi-year investigation, we found the nation’s largest broadband companies funded a secret campaign to influence the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality rules — resulting in millions of fake public comments impersonating Americans.
These illegal schemes are unacceptable.
— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) May 6, 2021
The broadband industry hired marketing companies that co-opted and created identities and filed nearly 18 million fake comments with the FCC and sent over half a million fake letters to Congress in support of the repeal.
This practice was also used to influence other policies.
— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) May 6, 2021
Today, we stopped three of these marketing companies from continuing their illegal behavior and recommended reforms to stop this type of fraud in the future.
We will continue to shine a light on abuses and disinformation that drown out the voices of the American people.
— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) May 6, 2021