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Re:Prominent D.C. media firm implicated in fake FCC comments by outsidetheparty on Monday February 25, 2019 @12:01AM (#19243102)
> 14 organizations are under investigation, not just one.

I did miss that, fair enough -- amend my statement to "Which is presumably why it merits this year-long investigation of these 14 organizations".

> it's not clear why you'd think they are manually looking at any of these

It's not clear why you'd think 818,000 (per WSJ) identical comments submitted in alphabetical order should pass automated tests?

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Re:Prominent D.C. media firm implicated in fake FCC comments by ikeboy on Monday February 25, 2019 @12:07AM (#19243141)
>It's not clear why you'd think 818,000 (per WSJ) identical comments submitted in alphabetical order should pass automated tests?

There's no reason to think they were submitted originally in alphabetical order. The most likely possibility here is that CQ sorted them before submitting to the FCC.

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