The Federal Communications Commission’s Office of the Inspector General could not “substantiate the allegations of multiple DDOS attacks” in a recent report that prompted agency Chairman Ajit Pai to admit a prior claim that a cyberttack against a comment system was untrue.

The alleged distributed denial-of-service attack was said to have occurred when the FCC’s public comment filing system crashed in May 2017 after HBO late night host John Oliver called on “net neutrality” supporters to inundate the site with comments to save the Obama-era Internet rules.

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