https://wccftech.com/fcc-admits-lied-ddos-ajit-pai-obama/

It wasn't an attack on the comment system; it was the overwhelming number of people unhappy with an unpopular policy that brought the comment system down

During the time the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was taking public comments ahead of the rollback of net neutrality rules, the agency had claimed it went through multiple distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.