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Trump names commission member Brendan Carr as FCC chairman

President-elect Donald Trump has named Brendan Carr as the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

Carr has previously argued in favor of punishing TV networks for political bias and regulating big tech firms like Google and Apple. Carr wrote the FCC section on the infamous Project 2025 document, proposing new social media restrictions that could benefit conservative viewpoints. Brendan Carr has “proposed to do a lot of things he has no jurisdiction to do and in other cases he’s blatantly misreading the rules,” Free Press co-chief executive Jessica Gonzalez told the NYT.

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