FCC Commissioner Carr: Far Left Is Trying to Weaponize FCC

Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr said that groups like Free Press — he did not name them but made it clear who he was talking about — are engaged in a "sweeping and dangerous attempt to weaponize the FCC against political actors" it doesn't like. On April 6, the FCC — in this case comprising Chairman Ajit Pai, the general counsel, and the Media Bureau chief —flatly, and strongly, rejected a petition by Free Press seeking a government investigation into broadcasters who aired statements by President Donald Trump during coronavirus briefings and "related commentary." Chairman Pai and company argued that the investigation would itself curtail a free press. Commissioner Carr said that if Democrats get the majority, groups like Free Press would try to shut down conservative voices.