Category: astroturfing

FCC ordered to provide IP addresses tied to fake net neutrality comments

Post author By Randall
Post date May 3, 2020
Categories In astroturfing, corruption, fcc, foia, freedom of information act, gear, government, Internet, net neutrality, News, Politics, regulation, Tech

[ad_1] The NYT reporters filed a Freedom of Information Request for the data after the FCC refused to show logs. In theory, they’ll show both the extent of fake commenting and help trace it back to groups that may have been involved. Investigations have suggested that over half of the comments are fake, and some […]

Many of the Brexit Party’s Twitter followers appear to be bots

Post author By Randall
Post date May 19, 2019
Categories In astroturfing, bot, bots, brexit, brexit party, gear, Internet, nigel farage, Politics, social network, social networking, Tech, Twitter, Uk

[ad_1] Some of these accounts have been producing massive volumes of tweets focused on Brexit, and clearly in unrealistic amounts. One tweeted 823 times in the space of a day. Some are new, while others are from outside the UK. Regardless of behavior, the surge of new followers for the party suggested “inorganic” behavior. Just […]