https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/obama-didnt-force-fcc-to-impose-net-neutrality-investigation-found/

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has been saying for years that the FCC imposed net neutrality rules in 2015 largely because then-President Barack Obama ordered the commission to do so.

Obama publicly called on the FCC to reclassify broadband providers as "Title II" common carriers and impose the rules in November 2014, three months before the FCC vote did just that. But an investigation last year by the FCC's independent Inspector General's (IG) office found "no evidence" of improper use of power by the White House when then-Chairman Tom Wheeler led the net neutrality vote, a newly released document shows.