{
  "slug": "public-comment-integrity",
  "title": "Twenty two million comments. Eighteen million of them were fake.",
  "summary": "The FCC net neutrality docket was flooded with comments filed under real people's names. Generative text made the old defences useless. Identity is not the fix.",
  "lede": "The most consequential thing about the FCC net neutrality docket was not that software wrote comments. It was that millions of them were filed under the names of real people who never wrote a word. That is impersonation, and the fix for impersonation is not asking everyone else to prove who they are.",
  "date": "2026-09-27",
  "reading_time": "19 min read",
  "category": "Regulated",
  "tags": [
    "public comment fraud",
    "rulemaking integrity",
    "falsely attributed comments",
    "notice and comment",
    "anonymous speech",
    "proof of human"
  ],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Public%20Comment%20Integrity/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/public-comment-integrity.html",
  "wordcount": 4430,
  "related": [
    "verified-human-comments",
    "detection-debt",
    "how-to-prove-human-2026"
  ],
  "schema": "Article"
}