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The New Way to Hack Democracy - Millions of Fake Comments Sent to the FCC

posted by martyb on Tuesday October 08 2019, @11:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the voice-of-the-people^W-bots dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A consultant working for the US broadband industry's lobbying group "Broadband for America" sent over 1 million comments to the FCC opposing net neutrality.

Many of the names and email addresses in these comments are tied to a single data breach. Here's how Buzzfeed figured out what happened.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 09 2019, @12:10AM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 09 2019, @12:10AM (#904418) Journal

    Exactly. So - we, society in general, rely on all those bad cogs for EVERYTHING. It makes no sense at all.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by coolgopher on Wednesday October 09 2019, @10:40AM

    by coolgopher (1157) on Wednesday October 09 2019, @10:40AM (#904616)

    It makes perfect sense. It's the path of least have-to-give-a-fuck.