It was inevitable after John Oliver’s witty but highly misleading hit piece on the TCPA. Even after the Czar’s thorough rebuke of the John Oliver bit, mainstream media outlets have followed with their own lightly researched and unintentionally misleading articles. Many simply repeat Oliver’s misleading claims, like these examples from Rolling Stone and Time. Others parrot data from the “robocall index” produced by call-blocking app maker YouMail that doesn’t actually track robocalls. The fake news is causing real harm, because false-TCPA narratives from interest groups get in the way of meaningful reform. And in the meantime, the inundation from true robocallers – mainly offshore spammers – continues.
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