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"NY Attorney General Schneiderman estimated that hundreds of thousands of Americans identities were stolen and used in spam campaigns that support repealing net neutrality. My research found at least 1.3 million fake pro-repeal comments, with suspicions about many more. In fact, the sum of fake pro-repeal comments in the proceeding may number in the millions. In this post, I will point out one particularly egregious spambot submission, make the case that there are likely many more pro-repeal spambots yet to be confirmed, and estimate the public position on net neutrality in the organic public submissions.¹
https://hackernoon.com/more-than-a-million-pro-repeal-net-neutrality-comments-were-likely-faked-e9f0e3ed36a6
oasis
(49,492 posts)Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)of linking to right wing sites, it's how Drudge can tilt entire polls to the right.
procon
(15,805 posts)agencies in the Trump administration that is working as intended.
sheshe2
(84,089 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)gristy
(10,667 posts)Puzzler
(2,505 posts)... regardless, thank you for posting this. Ill spread the info.
K&R!!!
-Puzzler
C Moon
(12,227 posts)Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)Nope, must be Putin.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Anyone still remember SOAP?
This is the strangest shit since the Tates and the Campbells!
I can't wait until the next episode!
Johnny2X2X
(19,311 posts)They are using propaganda in new ways to pass their legislation. We are down the rabbit hole people. It's only going to get worse. They have just begun to unleash this power on the American people.
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)Throw in some reverse psy-ops against them.
Within MINUTES of Hillary speaking out in support of repealing net neutrality, the tRumpublicons will rally like nobody's business to ensure net neutrality doesn't only remain in place, but gets reinforced and protected as stringently as the 2nd amendment.
Liberal In Texas
(13,622 posts)A cyber war for sure, but a war.
And somebody in who we pay our taxes to better stop it.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)I was contacting "interveners" who could barely form an intelligible sentence but were apparently deeply concerned about nuanced regulatory, development and zoning issues, they were doing it for Best Buy gift cards. How do I know that? Most of them freely volunteered that information.
The best part was the engagement experts and facilitators who insisted we take these people and their submissions seriously.