Professors Jeff Pooley and Dwayne Winseck examine claims that the Obama-era Federal Communications Commission failed to ground its regulations in economic reasoning – and find the idea preposterous. What they unearth instead is AT&T-sponsored ‘research’ -- and Pooley and Winseck show how the FCC has been working in earnest to bolster, not sideline, economic analysis.
Instead of a rebuttal, Pooley and Winseck, the University of Southern California, and the International Journal of Communication have received legal threats from AT&T-backed CALinnovates.
See Information Laundering, Economists and Ajit Pai’s Race to Roll-Back the Obama-era FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules at https://www.benton.org/blog/information-laundering-economists-and-ajit-pais-race-roll-back-obama-era-fccs-net-neutrality