In a new report, New York Attorney General Letitia James found that of the more than 22 million public comments the Federal Communications Commission received in 2017 regarding the repeal of net neutrality protections, a whopping 18 million were fake. Millions of those comments, the report says, were funded by the broadband industry. "The OAG found that millions of fake comments were submitted through a secret campaign, funded by the country's largest broadband companies, to manufacture support for the repeal of existing net neutrality rules using lead generators," the report says. "And millions more were submitted by a 19- year old college student using made-up identities." The investigators behind the report found that nearly 80% of the comments funded by the broadband industry were collected by lead generation companies that offered consumers various rewards in exchange for their information. "Marketing offers varied widely, and included everything from discounted children's movies to free trials of male enhancement products," the report reads. The broadband industry would then run additional solicitations alongside those promotions, asking consumers to join the anti-net neutrality campaign, according to the report.

After a group of young Black activists saw police reform efforts fail over and again, they came up with a new plan.

Fifteen to 20 of the endangered giant birds wrecked the deck, knocked over lawn ornaments and tore up “every piece of plastic” they could find, the homeowner’s daughter said.

Nicholas Adam Newhart’s crappy night reportedly began while he was blocking an exit at Kid Rock’s bar in Nashville and ended after he took out his colostomy bag and accosted police offi…

Hardcore Donald Trump fans, QAnon supporters, and indeed Trump himself, still hold out hope that November’s election result will be overturned thanks to the ballot audit currently taking place in Arizona. Those hopes now apparently rest on a 5K camera and bamboo fibers. That’s right, the auditors in Arizona are looking into the conspiracy theory that a box containing 40,000 ballots was shipped from China and stuffed into the ballot boxes in Maricopa County as part of the efforts to steal the election from the former president. “There’s accusations that 40,000 ballots were flown in and stuffed into the box and it came from the Southeast part of the world, Asia. And what they’re doing is to find out if there’s bamboo in the paper,” Brakey told CBS5 News. “They use bamboo in their paper processing, people in south-east Asia” Brakey added, before saying he doesn’t believe the conspiracy theory. “I’m just saying that is part of the mystery we want to un-gaslight people about.” The specific claim about Asian ballots being stuffed into boxes in Arizona appears to have come from conspiracy theorist and amateur treasure hunter Jovan Pulitzer. So where is Pulitzer now? He’s heavily involved in the Arizona audit, of course. Pulitzer, a failed inventor who once created a barcode scanner listed as one of the 50 worst inventions ever, is consulting with the company running the audit to use unproven technology that Pulitzer claims can spot fraudulent ballots.

We obtained video from the scene of the chase that spanned two Coast counties and resulted in the deaths of a double homicide suspect and his 4-month-old son. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark is one of Broadway's biggest bombs. However, its cultural relevance is almost non-existent today. Writing for bnet, theater writer Joey Sims explores the YouTube channel that's chronicling the show's many changes and failures.

A group is filing complaints against current and former Queens prosecutors who have been criticized by judges for misconduct.

Florida is quickly becoming a much older, less creative version of California, with none of the homegrown industry or attempts to recruit, develop, and serve a future.

Montana plans to stop some of its federally-funded unemployment benefits to address its "severe workforce shortage,” which will leave many out-of-work residents without any support at all.

Andrew Brenner, a state senator in Ohio, is getting some heat for driving while participating in a Zoom call earlier this week. The Ohio Senate is currently taking up a bill that would create additional penalties for distracted driving and a local newspaper, the Columbus Dispatch, pointed out the irony of the situation.

Like most Americans, Reuben Sushman is eligible to get his COVID-19 vaccine shot. But he's living in Thailand, where only 1% of the population has so far been vaccinated, so there's no telling when he will be able to get his shot.

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This Malibu photographer captures images of great white sharks along the Southern California coast, many just feet from unknowing swimmers and surfers.

Cats, like people, can be fooled by optical illusions, nifty new research out this week suggests. Experiments conducted by pet owners at home found that cats sit inside 2D shapes that only look like squares about as often as they’ll sit inside a real square.

Konrad Tomaszkiewicz was cleared by the investigation but still resigned, apologizing "for all the bad blood" he caused.

A post from CEO Jason Fried last week kicked off a week of chaos.

A federal judge on Wednesday threw out the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's nationwide moratorium on evictions, a setback for the millions of Americans who have fallen behind on rent payments during the coronavirus pandemic. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich said that while there was "no doubt" Congress intended to empower the CDC to combat COVID-19 through a range of measures such as quarantines, a moratorium on residential evictions was not among them. Friedrich cited the "plain language" of a law called the Public Health Service Act, which governs the federal response to the spread of communicable diseases, even while acknowledging that the pandemic is "a serious public health crisis that has presented unprecedented challenges for public health officials and the nation."

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