Large-scale appropriation of Americans’ IDs suggested by Fake Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Commenters’ response

We started by following up on a hunch, but the survey results we are collecting are starting to feel much more sinister.¹

Hi there. You might remember my last blog post about fake comments in the FCC net neutrality proceeding for a project I did at Metis. In the last couple of weeks since that post, I’ve been working day and night² as a member of the Truth in Public Comments (TiPC) project at the Startup Policy Lab³ here in SF.

We wanted to uncover more facts beneath the suspicions so many others have raised. The best way was to take as direct a measurement as possible — to survey the commenters who provided an email address and ask whether they submitted the comment in the first place.⁴

Here are a few charts from survey results as of 8pm PT on December 10:⁵