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This week on The Vergecast, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks with Jeremy Singer-Vine, the data editor for the BuzzFeed News investigative unit, about his story that was published recently regarding the fake comments on the Federal Communications Commission\u2019s online net neutrality debate.\nIf you haven\u2019t read the piece, you should. The investigation details where all of the fake comments in the FCC\u2019s net neutrality process came from, including dead people leaving comments and shady political operatives involved in the scam.\nIt\u2019s not really a story about net neutrality; rather, it\u2019s about how systems designed for public participation in the government are so easily scammed, and what the challenges are for preventing such scams from happening.\nNilay and Jeremy discuss why it happened, how it happened, and what happens next if we want to use the internet to encourage open access participation in government without corruption.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices