Emails show FCC "spread lies" about a fake cyberattack after John Oliver directed his fans to flood its commenting system

The Daily Dot

The FCC's commenting system crashed after Oliver's Last Week Tonight stunt in support of neutrality last May, but the FCC blamed a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks for the impairment. According to Gizmodo, which obtained FCC documents through the Freedom of Information Act, "as it wrestled with accusations about a fake cyberattack last spring, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) purposely misled several news organizations, choosing to feed journalists false information, while at the same time discouraging them from challenging the agency’s official story."