
Brendan Carr declares victory over the First Amendment
Adi Robertson
created: Aug. 3, 2025, 2 p.m. | updated: Aug. 4, 2025, 5:12 p.m.
On Monday, the Freedom of the Press Foundation filed a complaint against Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr.
While the complaint’s examples go back months, Status reports that the FPF’s “tipping point” was Carr’s recent approval of a merger between Paramount and Skydance.
For months, the FCC let the request languish while Paramount negotiated a specious anti-speech lawsuit from President Donald Trump.
The merger conditions require “a diversity of viewpoints,” which sounds like a lofty goal — but let’s play out what it means in Carr and Trump’s world.
It’s already landed anti-“DEI” provisions from a different company, Verizon, and there’s no reason to think it will stop there.
2 weeks, 1 day ago: The Verge