> FCC to investigate potential for foul play in marketing?

...why would this be an FCC issue?

> Surely if any aspect of these episodes turned out to be mischaracterized, let alone staged, there should be consequences, no?

"Any aspect"? No. (Is there a Betteridge's law for statements following "surely"? If not I'm calling it Rumack's Razor [1].)

And we have no evidence so far anything has been staged, much less to the detriment of telecommunications consumers.

[1] https://screenrant.com/airplane-best-quotes-ranked-dont-call...

Pardon me I got my jurisdictions mixed up, it's the FTC that would regulate these matters. I'd believe nothing's been staged, but it's quite apparent to me that these security incidents and findings are being spun for marketing.

For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929433