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Re:FCC must reveal IP addresses and user-agent headers of ne... by 0xy on Monday May 04, 2020 @06:14PM (#23073995)
This is extremely misleading. The majority of pro-NN comments were also subject to botting and fraud.
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Re:FCC must reveal IP addresses and user-agent headers of ne... by hannasanarion on Monday May 04, 2020 @08:31PM (#23075016)
No, they werent. The comments are already public, my text analytics company used them for a demo of our sentiment analysis. Almost all of the duplicate comments were anti-neutrality, only about 1% of verbatim-duplicate comments were pro-neutrality.
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Re:FCC must reveal IP addresses and user-agent headers of ne... by 0xy on Monday May 04, 2020 @09:59PM (#23075574)
How does "verbatim-duplicate" mean botted and fraudulent exclusively? You're absolutely wrong. Most of the pro-NN comments, again, were posted by individuals who had no knowledge of the comments.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/millions-of-people-post-comment...

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