FCC Proposes Rebuilding Comment System After Millions Were Found Fake

Chairman Ajit Pai tells two senators he wants to ‘re-engineer’ online commenting system to create ‘safeguards against abusive conduct’

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission proposed an overhaul of the agency’s online comment system after millions of fake comments were posted about a recent FCC rule change.

The FCC’s Ajit Pai said in a letter to two senators that he was proposing “to rebuild and re-engineer” the commission’s electronic comment system “to institute appropriate safeguards against abusive conduct.”

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