Trump’s FCC Chair Wants Networks to Run Nationalistic Content and Pledge Loyalty for America’s Big Bday

Photo: 2024 State of the Net – Keynote with Brendan Carr – February 12, 2024. Photo credit: Internet Education Foundation via Flickr. CC BY 4.0 (no modifications). Article by Justin Caffier. Gizmodo – February 22, 2026.

Until now, current chair of the Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr has mostly been in the news for his role in weaponizing the FCC to serve the aims of this administration.  In December, he testified to Congress that his office is, erm, actually “not formally an independent agency,” right before removing the word “independent” from the mission statement on the agency’s website. More recently, he continued his tradition of threatening late-night hosts by again harassing CBS about Colbert and desperately trying to make enforcement of the “equal-time rule” a cudgel worth fearing. […]

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