https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzg8yy/ajit-pai-net-neutrality-speech > For the duration of the fight over net neutrality, there have been a constant stream of falsehoods pushed by AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast to justify their frontal assault on the popular rules. One popular bogeyman has been that net neutrality rules devastated telecom sector investment, a claim consistently disproven by publicly-accessible SEC filings, earnings reports, independent analysis, and statements to investors from more than a half-dozen industry executives. And yet, time and time again, the idea that net neutrality hurt sector investment is repeated by telecom industry lobbyists, policy vessels, and loyal lawmakers, then printed and re-printed by countless media outlets as undeniable fact. > But the net neutrality investment canard isn’t the only claim that remains stubbornly opposed to a solid debunking thanks to unskeptical media outlets in the post-truth era. Another popular claim by the sector is that net neutrality rules are somehow preventing people who are sick or disabled from gaining access to essential medical services they need to survive.