Brendan Carr, President-elect Donald Trump‘s pick as the next chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has outlined the areas the agency that regulates telecommunications will focus on next year.
Carr, the current top Republican on the FCC, has already vowed to end the agency’s promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), ensure broadcasters operate in the public interest, and dismantle the “censorship cartel” amid claims of anti-Republican bias from big tech companies such as Google and Apple.
Trump previously nominated Carr as a commissioner to the FCC in 2017. Carr has supported some of the president-elect’s attacks on television networks and news outlets during the 2024 election, including suggesting that NBC could lose its license for having Vice President Kamala Harris appear on Saturday Night Live just ahead of Election Day without giving equal time to Trump.
Liberal advocacy group Free Press Action said Carr will carry out the “personal vendettas” of Trump as …