Disinforming the FCC: Who Pays the Price of Misinformation?
May 11, 2021
Yep, Friday. Who needs to be reminded that “18 million of the over 22 million public comments that the FCC received both for and against net neutrality were fake.” I sure did not. “Net Neutrality: US Broadband Industry Accused in ‘Fake’ Comments on Rules” reports what may or may not be “trusted” and “accurate” information via the House of Mirrors channel:
The New York investigation showed that broadband industry players spent $4.2 million … to generate and submit more than 8.5 million fake comments to the FCC “to create the appearance of widespread grassroots opposition to existing net neutrality rules.”
The article answers the question “Who pays the price of misinformation?” by naming:
- Fluent
- Opt-Intelligence
- React2Media
Who paid?
The campaign was run through a nonprofit organization funded by the broadband industry called Broadband for America made up of senior broadband company and trade group officials, it said. Documents cited in the investigation said the public comments would give the FCC’s Republican chairman at the time, Ajit Pai, “volume and intellectual cover” for the repeal.
These are paragons of virtue I assume. The questions I have are:
- What entity or entities “look out” for the consumer?
- What universities trained these individuals responsible for the alleged actions?
- Was a US Federal agency aware of the “campaign”?
Interesting but possibly part of a larger pattern of information manipulation.
Stephen E Arnold, May 11, 2021
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