The federal rulemaking system includes periods of public input and discussion, but frequently the systems that collect comments are subject to spam, disinformation and other campaigns designed to ...

The record 22 million comments received by the FCC regarding the future of net neutrality has sparked considerable discussion about the impact of automated bots on the government’s ability to hear ...

“According to multiple researchers, more than one million of the record 22 million comments the FCC received on its plans to roll back net neutrality protections were from bots that used natural ...

When the Federal Communication Commission asked the public what it thought about its net neutrality rules in 2017, the comments flooded in—including millions submitted under fake names by ...

Among the nearly 22 million public comments about net neutrality filed with the Federal Communications Commission in recent months, only 6% of them were unique comments, a Pew Research Center study ...

Some mysterious bots seem to have taken a keen interest in telecommunications policy. Automated programs are thought to be responsible for more than 100,000 identical comments recently posted to the ...

FiscalNote analyzed the comments and found some suspicious patterns. The D.C. company’s work caught the attention of Wired. The FiscalNote team at work during President Obama's final SOTU. The Federal ...

Before posting comments on the government’s online e-rulemaking systems, the public could soon be prompted to answer a new question: “Are you a robot?” Agency officials told lawmakers they are ...