针对《哥伦比亚新闻评论》的乔纳森·彼得斯（Jonathan Peters）提出的《信息自由法》要求，联邦通信委员会公布了自2016年10月以来收到的关于“假新闻”的少量投诉。

不出所料，彼得斯分享的大多数投诉（来自FCC提供的40批投诉）都是关于有线新闻网络的自由偏见：

“All news stati*** must be censored or fined when they continuously lie, obfuscate and misdirect intentionally. The most egregious of these is CNN, but ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC et al are equally guilty…”

其他一些人指出福克斯新闻的事实错误，这也不足为奇。更有趣的是，这些投诉中有多少涉及到了FCC完全没有权限的信息发布者。

例如，私营报纸：

“The Mainstream Media news outlets are obviously trying to undermine our President and our nation by inundating the public with fake news, misleading stories, and one-sided biased interviews and spokespeople. It is most apparent on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS, but also print media like the New York Times and Washington Post.”

国家询问者：

“…no one can tell me why they are contractually obligated to display fake news immediately adjacent to the cashier. Their only resp***e is that it makes them money, people demand it. I can give full details in e-mail”

假新闻网站：

“My 75 year old father told me about this site and the memory boosting pill Bill Gates touted in Forbes. I explained it was a fake news site. Why is this not regulated?”

谷歌的搜索结果：

“There are several editorials that are not clearly marked as such that the mainstream news networks such as CBS and NBC then air on their various news programs as if it is news and not opinion.”

和Facebook：

“…Mark Zuckerberg was a Hillary fan and in the beginning of the presidential race, Trump used to get 10,000 likes an hour while Hillary got a few thousand? Towards the end, Trump would get a few hundred a day and Hillary would get thousands. Zuckerberg donated $17 million to Hillary which I call collusion and c***piracy and if she won, my belief he would have control of the Internet. There was and is endless fake news on FB. Much of it made up against Trump by FB, Hillary and the democratic party. I really feel that the FCC needs to investigate Face Book & Zuckerberg and drain that swamp.”

虽然投诉的数量很少，但值得注意的是，美国人似乎不知道该和谁谈论互联网。

你可以在这里查看彼得斯的完整报告，但他指出，联邦通信委员会回应了大多数投诉，解释社会媒体和非广播有线新闻不属于其管辖范围。在某些情况下，申诉人被指向联邦贸易委员会或州消费者保护局。

很奇怪，Facebook在美国主要新闻网络中排成一排，尽管近一半的美国成年人在那里得到了他们的消息，这无疑有助于解释这一点。正如彼得斯指出的，投诉意味着消费者认为“假新闻”是**应该负责解决的问题，无论发生在哪里。

其中一项投诉还认为，Facebook“阻止他们选择的任何人”的能力在刑事上是不公平的，这对另一个大众对社交媒体网络定位的误解不屑一顾。显然，Facebook和Twitter都是私人公司——它们没有法律义务在自己的平台上无条件地为任何人提供位置，它们也不对传播到那里的信息的管理机构负责。如果你对他们中的任何一个有意见，联邦通信委员会的人都不会对此采取太多行动。