https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/5/1769610/-Internal-emails-reveal-that-the-FCC-lied-and-made-up-DDOS-attack-as-propaganda-against-John-Oliver
"This past May, as Ajit Pai and the Republican-led FCC promised to roll back any and all consumer protections afforded to Americans via net neutrality, Oliver told his audience once again to flood the FCC website with their support for our protections. The site crashed but this time the FCC began to say that no, the overwhelming amount of online support for keeping net neutrality protections in place was not the cause, a massive DDOS attack on their servers was the reason. A malicious attack from some cyber-liberal bad actor! Of course, those claims were backed up by no evidence and a refusal to provide evidence or even investigate their own claims. Gizmodo has been through a batch of new internal emails released as a result of their Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Guess what? About those claims FCC officials made? Yes, exactly."
