US broadband industry paid millions for 'fake' net neutrality comments

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Funded a grassroots campaign while the FCC considered repealing policy.

US broadband industry paid millions for 'fake' net neutrality comments
The broadband industry in 2017 funded a campaign that generated millions of fake comments to create the impression of grassroots opposition to net neutrality rules while the US Federal Communications Commission considered repealing the policy, New York state's attorney general said on ...

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