FCC Promises to Fix Broken Comment System It Just Spent Millions to Upgrade

July 13, 2018

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said it will address its online public comment system in the wake of millions of fake comments being left ahead of its vote last year to dismantle net neutrality protections. The comment system fix was mentioned in a letter from FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the Wall Street Journal reports, who asked the agency to “identify and address fraudulent behavior” in its comments system in late May. In that letter, the two senators said their names were among the millions that were left fraudulently ahead of the FCC’s net neutrality vote. The fake names have stirred a torrent of criticism directed at the FCC, and they are at the center of an investigation by the New York Attorney General.

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