Millions Of Comments About The FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Were Fake. Now The Feds Are Investigating.

Kevin Collier and Jeremy Singer-Vine:

The Justice Department is investigating whether crimes were committed when potentially millions of people’s identities were posted to the FCC’s website without their permission, falsely attributing to them opinions about net neutrality rules, BuzzFeed News has learned.

Two organizations told BuzzFeed News, each on condition that they not be named, that the FBI delivered subpoenas to them related to the comments.

The reports are the first that federal investigators are taking in interest in the case, which was already subject to an investigation previously announced by the New York attorney general’s office.

Both organizations had previously been subpoenaed by New York and said the scope of those subpoenas were similar.