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  1. The Trump administration’s communications licensing tsar
    threatened to cancel the spectrum permits of broadcasters
    pushing what he termed “hoaxes and news distortions”.

    Federal Communications Commission ( #FCC ) chair #Brendan #Carr posted on social media that broadcasters running “fake news – have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up.
    The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest,
    and they will lose their licenses if they do not.”

    Carr’s threat comes amid sustained complaints from Trump and members of the administration over its treatment by what it derisively terms
    “the fake news media” and what it considers unflattering or unpatriotic coverage of the conflict in Iran.

    In his post, Carr copied a Truth Social post by Trump complaining about “misleading” coverage on Iran.

    “Yet again, an intentionally misleading headline by the Fake News Media about the five tanker planes that were supposedly struck down at an Airport in Saudi Arabia, and of no further use,”
    Trump wrote Saturday on Truth Social.

    Trump singled out the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal,
    saying that they “and other Lowlife ‘Papers’ and Media actually want us to lose the War”,
    calling the outlets’ reporting “the exact opposite of the actual facts!”
    “They are truly sick and demented people that have no idea the damage they cause the United States of America,”
    Trump added.

    Under the Communications Act of 1934, the FCC has control over the airwaves, including “commercial and non-commercial fixed and mobile wireless services, broadcast television and radio, satellite and other services”

    In his post on Saturday, Carr said,
    without any evidence,
    that it was in the news industry’s
    “own business interests
    since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters”.

    He indicated he could use access to the broadcast and communications spectrum,
    which is considered a public asset,
    to rectify the issue,
    setting up another potential clash between the government and the media"
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m

  2. CW: uspol,violence

    (08 Oct) ISPs created so many fees that FCC will kill requirement to list them all

    ISPs complained about Biden-era rule, said listing every fee was too hard.

    s.faithcollapsing.com/1dy07
    Archive: ia: s.faithcollapsing.com/qew6k

    #brendan-carr #fcc #policy

  3. CW: uspol

    (19 Sep) After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC’s The View

    Carr: “Turn your license in to the FCC, we’ll find something else to do with it.”…

    s.faithcollapsing.com/kjri7
    Archive: ia: s.faithcollapsing.com/e3wep

    #brendan-carr #equal-time-rule #jimmy-kimmel #policy #the-view

  4. CW: uspol

    (25 Jul) Skydance deal allows Trump’s FCC to “censor speech” and “silence dissent” on CBS

    FCC now has “never-before-seen controls” over a newsroom, commissioner warns.

    s.faithcollapsing.com/4wl3y
    Archive: ais: archive.md/wip/FOFPA ia: s.faithcollapsing.com/ane42

    #brendan-carr #cbs #dei #donald-trump #fcc #first-amendment #freedom-of-the-press #paramount #policy #sky-dance

  5. Trump’s " #Censorship #Czar " investigates NPR and PBS, and urges Congress to defund them Federal Communications Commission Chairman #Brendan #Carr has ordered an investigation into NPR and PBS. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

    Trump’s FCC chair investigates...

  6. Donald Trump repeatedly told America he had “nothing to do” with #Project2025.
    But now, he’s welcoming its architect into his Cabinet with open arms.

    #Russ #Vought, who was deeply involved in the creation of Project 2025 and wrote an entire chapter in the right-wing playbook,
    is being strongly considered for an #upcoming Cabinet position, according to several sources who spoke with ABC News.

    Vought has already begun the vetting process and has been seen at Mar-a-Lago meeting with Trump’s team.

    Vought—a former lobbyist, self-described #Christian #nationalist, and director of the Office of Management and Budget in Trump’s first term
    —authored a chapter in the 922-page MAGA extremist master plan titled
    “Executive Office of the President” for Project 2025’s
    “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise” section.
    The chapter serves as
    “a comprehensive policy guide for the next conservative U.S. president.”

    Vought isn’t the only Project 2025 alum being floated for a crucial role in the Trump Cabinet.
    #Gene #Hamilton, who wrote a chapter about how the Justice Department needed a
    “top to bottom overhaul” because it is
    “captured by an unaccountable bureaucratic managerial class and radical Left ideologues who have embedded themselves throughout its offices and components,”
    has been seriously floated for an important legal team position.

    Trump has also nominated Project 2025 contributor and free-speech “warrior” #Brendan #Carr to serve as Federal Communications Commission chair.

    On the campaign trail, Trump had tried to distance himself from Project 2025, 💥particularly after it became a focus point for Democrats.
    “This was a group of people that got together, they came up with some ideas, I guess some good, some bad, but it makes no difference.
    I have nothing to do [with it],” Trump stated during his nationally televised debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.
    His loyal transition team co-chair #Howard #Lutnick described the project as an “absolute zero” and “radioactive.”
    And yet here we are,
    with Vought, Carr, and Hamilton cozying back up to the president-elect,
    who was surely lying to America throughout his campaign.
    🔥The skeleton plan for the far-right takeover is coming alive.
    newrepublic.com/post/188580/tr