Cluster 96413d57e367... / semantic
Cluster of 1,002 comments
Representative
Anonymous Citizen / Aug 28, 2017
Date range
Aug 28, 2017
Embedding model
BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5
Similarity threshold
0.92
Investigative Campaign Dossier
Campaign Execution & Evolution Narrative
This cluster represents a sophisticated, highly organized paraphrasing campaign funded by major telecom lobby groups (Broadband for America). Instead of submitting identical text, their bulk submission systems injected randomized citizen prefaces and substituted synonym clauses. Naive exact duplicates are practically zero (1.6%), yet 99.5% of comments retain identical core paragraphs and preserve a 94.2% mean cosine similarity. Submissions occurred in a dense 2-hour temporal burst, hijacking citizen names without consent.
Sophisticated Paraphrased Astroturf
Submissions hijack real citizen identities and inject random prefaces to bypass typical duplicate filters. Requires dense semantic analysis to trace.
Evidentiary Blueprint: Template Mutation Highlights
Review the stacking of representative medoid template text against customized member edits. Notice how each member added custom sentences while preserving the core political template.
The representative template
“We need the FCC to defend the rights of millions of Internet users by upholding net neutrality protections. I stand with the millions of other Internet users who've urged the Commission to keep important net neutrality protections intact. The FCC should reject Chairman Ajit Pai's proposal to hand the government-subsidized telecom giants like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast free rein to create Internet fast lanes, stripping Internet users of the necessary privacy and access rules we demanded and just recently won. I'm afraid of a 'pay-to-play' Internet where ISPs can charge more for certain websites because ISPs could have too much power to determine what I can do online. Thankfully, the existing net neutrality rules mean that Internet providers can't slow or block customers' ability to see certain web services or create Internet 'fast lanes' by charging online services and websites more money to reach customers faster. That's exactly the right balance to make sure competition in the Internet space is fair and benefits consumers and small businesses as well as larger players. Pai's proposed repeal of the rules would transform ISPs into gatekeepers with an effective veto right on expression and innovation. That's contrary to the basic precepts on which the Internet was built. It Means Everything to me. Thank you for keeping Title II net neutrality rules in place to protect Internet users like me.”
Preview truncated to ~500 characters per the export contract. Full text remains in silver.parsed_comments.
Likely Campaign Origin
Not yet analyzed. Run the AttributionAgent to scan curated seed sources for evidence matches against this cluster's template text. Results are reported as candidate sources with confidence labels - never as definitive accusations.
python scripts/run_attribution.py --docket-id 17-108 --mode offline_seed --max-clusters 5
Language Migration Check
Not yet analyzed. Run the MigrationAgent against a local final rule text fixture to look for language overlap between this cluster and the rule. The agent reports phrase-level overlap; it does not claim causal influence.
python scripts/run_migration.py --docket-id 17-108 --mode local_text --final-rule-text evals/fixtures/migration/fcc_17_108_final_rule_excerpt.txt --max-clusters 5
All Campaign Cluster Members
3 other comments in this cluster
Members
- Aug 28, 2017Gregory House
“We need the FCC to defend the rights of millions of Internet users by upholding net neutrality protections. I stand with the millions of other Internet users who've urged the Commission to keep important net neutrality...”
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- Aug 28, 2017Robert Chase
“We need the FCC to defend the rights of millions of Internet users by upholding net neutrality protections. I stand with the millions of other Internet users who've urged the Commission to keep important net neutrality...”
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- Aug 28, 2017Eleanor Vance
“We need the FCC to defend the rights of millions of Internet users by upholding net neutrality protections. I stand with the millions of other Internet users who've urged the Commission to keep important net neutrality...”
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