
Brendan Carr Is Turning the FCC Into MAGA’s Censoring Machine
Steven Levy
created: May 2, 2025, 2 p.m. | updated: May 6, 2025, 3:01 p.m.
In the practiced government kabuki of these events, commissioners spoke, proposals were voted on unanimously, and chairman Brendan Carr, appointed by Donald Trump, ran things smoothly, though his demeanor was rather boisterous.
An observer might conclude that despite the new administration, it was business as usual at the FCC.
Notably, Carr has launched a probe into how CBS edited a 60 Minutes interview of then candidate Kamala Harris.
But after Trump installed Carr as FCC chair in late January, he pulled the case out of the dustbin and started an investigation.
The CBS case and the network coverage of deportations aren’t even in the same universe as that kind of malfeasance.
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