People who were impersonated by anti-net neutrality spammers blast FCC

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Palto) Fourteen people who say their names and addresses were attached to anti-net neutrality comments without their permission have asked the Federal Communications Commission to notify other victims of the impersonation and remove fraudulent comments from the net neutrality docket. As we’ve previously reported, there have been hundreds of thousands of identical comments that […]

Super Bowl Spammers Keep Tricking Google's Top Stories Module [Updates]

Tonight is the Super Bowl, a sporting event enjoyed by many. As Google search traffic goes, it’s also a fucking goldmine—which explains why a LinkedIn blogger wrote over 150 junk articles on how to stream it. Advertisement Attempts to game search engine optimization around events was epitomized by The Huffington Post’s infamously trolly piece What […]