Brendan Carr, Jimmy Kimmel and FCC
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Top U.S. media regulator Brendan Carr has sparked outrage and calls for his resignation from Democratic lawmakers and other critics after he pressured Walt Disney to stop running a late-night talk show.
Not long ago they sought to give more power to the FCC to regulate political speech.
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell (Calif.) on Thursday suggested Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr “get a lawyer” for when Democrats take the majority in Congress
Carr didn’t bite: “The greatest threat that we have seen over the last several years really has come from large social media companies,” he told me.
Carr, who took over as President Donald Trump’s FCC chair in January after serving as a commissioner since 2017, quickly became a political lightning rod, particularly as he ramped up investigations into media outlets and explicitly celebrated the president in a way distinct from past agency leaders.