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Re:FCC must reveal IP addresses and user-agent headers of ne... by ikeboy on Monday May 04, 2020 @05:10PM (#23073293)
There were large numbers of comments on both sides made by people who denied writing them when asked. WSJ found thousands of people who denied writing a particular pro-NN message with their names attached.
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Re:FCC must reveal IP addresses and user-agent headers of ne... by takeda on Monday May 04, 2020 @05:17PM (#23073376)
The idea was to spam the comments forum so FCC can just ignore the comments altogether. Majority of genuine comments were pro NN[1][2].

[1] https://medium.com/ragtag-notes/bot-or-not-verifying-public-...

[2] https://medium.com/@csinchok/an-analysis-of-the-anti-title-i...

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Re:FCC must reveal IP addresses and user-agent headers of ne... by ikeboy on Monday May 04, 2020 @05:47PM (#23073705)
From your first link:

>Based on this analysis, we estimate that 91% of all anti-net-neutrality submissions, and 79% of all pro-net-neutrality submissions, came from bots.

Their survey data is mostly inconsistent with the WSJ data. See https://archive.fo/sp9Q7. WSJ had multiple orders of magnitude higher sample size, so I'd go with their numbers.

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