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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @04:04AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @04:04AM (#904513)

    Its called "the intelligence community agrees".

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @04:36AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @04:36AM (#904519)

    Buzzfeed and the NYS attorney general are "Intelligence Agencies?"

    Wow! Can I have some of what you're smoking? It must be really good!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @05:04AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @05:04AM (#904529)

      Of course they are, who do you think did the investigation?

    • (Score: 1, Redundant) by c0lo on Wednesday October 09 2019, @08:49AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 09 2019, @08:49AM (#904590) Journal

      Buzzfeed and the NYS attorney general are "Intelligence Agencies?"

      That's a kind of sarcasm, son, weird but still sarcasm.
      I mean... it has to be, nobody in their own, sane mind would take the assertion literally... ummm.... would they?

      (grin)

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