Millions
of fake comments supporting the repeal were reportedly submitted within the public comment period.
It's made even worse by trolls
posting fake comments and posing as parents sharing helpful info when all they're doing is plugging commercial sites where you have to pay for their guides.
The FCC's inspector general's office has changed course by agreeing to assist state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in a probe into
fake comments submitted during a public comment period on a net neutrality measure.
ALBANY — The Federal Communications Commission inspector general's office on Monday changed course by agreeing to assist state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in a probe
into fake comments submitted during a public comment period on a net neutrality measure.
Following reports released yesterday that as many as 2 million identities might have been stolen to leave
fake comments on the FCC's proposal during the public comment period, Commissioner Rosenworcel said in a statement, «This is crazy.
This is a little more hazy, but the cloud hanging over the FCC relating to its handling of the millions of
fake comments in its system is a real thing.
More than 5,000 people have filed reports with the office
over fake comments, the group says, and up to 2 million comments misused Americans» identities.
But what if you're not a spam bot hungry
for fake comments and you're just a business owner like Azhar looking to engage new customers?
At 1 p.m., AG Eric Schneiderman and FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel will
discuss fake comments that have corrupted the FCC's public comment process on net neutrality, and call on the commission to cooperate with the AG's investigation, 120 Broadway, Manhattan.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and an FCC commissioner are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to suspend its vote on net neutrality while one million
allegedly fake comments on the proposed repeal are investigated.
It's hard to stay true to myself and I sometimes feel like I need to
put fake comments not to offend anyone.
If the exchange is covered by the guidelines, and if the comments expressed by Lee are genuine and part of an April Fools joke by himself (as opposed to being
fake comments created as part of an April Fools joke by Bitcoin Magazine, or real comments about an actual new new world order on the part of Bobby and Charlie), Lee says, «then I am so screwed.
Fake comments using stolen identities have appeared in droves on the FCC's docket, and the New York attorney general says he's been blocked from investigating, appearing last week at a press conference alongside Rosenworcel.
His office recently posted a page where visitors can
flag fake comments, and he said it's gotten around 3,000 responses from around the country so far.
If you don't run a blog or online discussion group, you've probably never heard of them, but spam comments (
fake comments submitted en masse and intended to send traffic to a splog or other money - making site) are a real danger for sites that want to encourage public discussion.
Kao's investigation adds to prior evidence of
fake comments on the FCC system, some made using stolen personal information from real people.
They also bombard human - run sites
with fake comments (e.politics can get dozens per day) as another route to try to build traffic.
In December, he began an investigation into how the Federal Communications Commission was flooded with millions
of fake comments on a proposal to scrap so - called net neutrality rules.
The system used to generate
the fake comments swapped out words in such phrases again and again — for instance, switching «people like me» for «individual citizens» and «products» for «services» — to produce 1.3 million superficially distinct variations on the same basic block of text.
Fortune's Aaron Pressman has argued that undermining the public comment system would give a tactical edge to industry opponents of net neutrality, and that seems to be the thinking of the Trump FCC itself, which has refused to cooperate with an investigation into
the fake comments by the New York Attorney General.
A group of nearly 20 state attorneys general asked the FCC to delay the vote until the issue of
fake comments is addressed.
New York Attorney General Eric Shneiderman has launched an investigation of
the fake comments, but says the FCC has refused to cooperate with him.
John Oliver's «grassroots» activism against Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai is full of bot accounts,
fake comments, and death threats against the chairman.
The Instagram account we created for this story made it into the 1,000 - plus - follower Fuelgroup within two days after being juiced by approximately $ 15 dollars worth of fake followers, fake likes, and
fake comments.
Pro-Comcast, anti-net neutrality forces seem to be submitting
fake comments.
Stop writing
this fake comments, ARSENAL is not buying an quality player..
I originally installed Akismet back in August, about a month after e.politics launched and after enough spammers had found the site that distinguishing between real and
fake comments had become a pain.
As of late January, six months after e.politics launched, only 20,000
fake comments had come in, but I'm proud to say that a...
If you don't run a blog or online discussion group, you've probably never heard of them, but spam comments (
fake comments submitted en masse and intended to send traffic to a splog or other money - making site) are a real danger for sites that want to encourage public...
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says tens of thousands of
fake comments were posted to the FCC's website earlier this year on its plan to roll back net neutrality rules, which guarantee equal access to online content by internet providers.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said
the fake comments have corrupted the public hearing process, and we agree.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is urging a postponement of the vote after more than 2 million
fake comments to the FCC were identified.
The person who claimed to have great results with Venus Freeze was actually
a fake comment.
Often these postings are done with different names, fake postings and
fake comments are not new things now.
It turned a blind eye to all kinds of corruption in our public record — from Russian intervention to
fake comments to stolen identities in our files.
And more recently, we've talked about the rollback of net neutrality with the FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, and she talked about
the fake comments that were being posted during the public comment period of that and how many of them were coming from Russian addresses.
Pro-Comcast, anti-net neutrality forces seem to be submitting
fake comments.
His office has been investigating
the fake comments since last spring, as submitting comments using stolen identities of real people constitutes a crime under New York state law.
Likening the manipulation of real names and addresses to more traditional forms of identity theft, Schneiderman expresses concerns about how
the fake comments could have warped the FCC's assessment of public sentiment on net neutrality.
In the wake of the FCC's chaotic comment period — which was corrupted by millions of
fake comments — and its subsequent disastrous decision to overturn the 2015 Open Internet rules, we called on Congress to pass a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act to restore net neutrality.