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Gizmodo writes that FCC emails show that the agency spread lies to bolster false DDoS attack claims. Their system became overwhelmed in early 2017 after John Oliver directed his audience to flood the agency with comments supporting net neutrality. A similar surge had happened for similar reasons back in 2014. However, the current FCC team appears to have lied about both occasions.
Internal emails reviewed by Gizmodo lay bare the agency's efforts to counter rife speculation that senior officials manufactured a cyberattack, allegedly to explain away technical problems plaguing the FCC's comment system amid its high-profile collection of public comments on a controversial and since-passed proposal to overturn federal net neutrality rules.
The FCC has been unwilling or unable to produce any evidence an attack occurred—not to the reporters who've requested and even sued over it, and not to U.S. lawmakers who've demanded to see it. Instead, the agency conducted a quiet campaign to bolster its cyberattack story with the aid of friendly and easily duped reporters, chiefly by spreading word of an earlier cyberattack that its own security staff say never happened.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Thursday June 07 2018, @09:35PM
Now see, we have identified the error!
Fox has no reporters, so no reporters were duped, thus leaving the question of how many are gullible still unanswered. (Now if the question concerned blondes of a "certain" look, maybe we could reach "closure".)
This assertation is dubious, very dubious. Could it be that there was collusion between the FCC and Fox? They are both agencies of the current crooked administration, after all. . . .