https://www.cnet.com/news/fccs-net-neutrality-ddos-story-falls-apart-ajit-pai-blames-previous-admin/

It turns out major slowdowns on the FCC's site last May weren't because of DDoS attacks after all. 

At the time, the Federal Communications Commission said multiple distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which flood a website with useless traffic and cause it to slow down or crash, were to blame for the site's slowdowns. But on Monday, Chairman Ajit Pai said that information was false.