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		Fellshard on May 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York s... Are you kidding? The account of astroturfing on behalf of NN was far more widespread.

smt88 on May 6, 2021 [–]

Why would NN need astroturfing when it's wildly popular?

SpicyLemonZest on May 6, 2021 | [–]

It wasn't a matter of need - it was just trivially easy to do. New York says they traced 7.7 million faked pro-NN comments to a single college kid who doesn't seem to have done anything more complex than run a script.

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