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The Vergecast

What happened in the comments section of the FCC's net neutrality hearing?

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Tech News, Technology

4.44.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Vergecast, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks with Jeremy Singer-Vine, the data editor for the BuzzFeed News investigative unit, about his story that was published recently regarding the fake comments on the Federal Communications Commission’s online net neutrality debate. If you haven’t read the piece, you should. The investigation details where all of the fake comments in the FCC’s net neutrality process came from, including dead people leaving comments and shady political operatives involved in the scam. It’s not really a story about net neutrality; rather, it’s about how systems designed for public participation in the government are so easily scammed, and what the challenges are for preventing such scams from happening. Nilay and Jeremy discuss why it happened, how it happened, and what happens next if we want to use the internet to encourage open access participation in government without corruption. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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On this week's interview episode, we've got a little bit of a high situation.

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It's Jeremy Singer Vine, he's the data editor for the Buzzfeed News Investigative Unit.

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He just did a huge story about the fake comments the SEC's Net Nutriety Hearing.

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So you might have seen this on Buzzfeed.

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It is a huge investigation into where all of the fake comments in the FCC's Net Nutriety Process Camp Rump.

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I mean this is like dead people were leaving comments.

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