FCC's Carr Concerned About Tech Censorship

The senior Republican commissioner on the FCC is demanding that Big Tech companies fess up about their censorship activities targeting conservatives during the Biden years.

In a letter sent Wednesday and obtained by Newsmax, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote to the CEOs at the four largest tech companies — Apple's Tim Cook, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Alphabet's Sundar Pichai — demanding information about the censorship activities.

Carr began his letter, "Over the past few years, Americans have lived through an unprecedented surge in censorship" adding, "Your companies played significant roles in this improper conduct."

He noted that their companies and others "silenced Americans" for simply exercising their First Amendment rights.

Carr also lambasted the tech companies for working with so-called "media monitors" and other "fact-checkers."

Brendan Carr

In a statement to Newsmax, Carr said he issued the letter because "the American people are tired of Big Tech censorship and media bias."

In his letter, Carr asserted that these media monitors masquerade as truth arbiters, but their real purpose has been "to defund, demonetize, and otherwise put out of business news outlets" that differed from establishment media thinking.

Carr specifically identified in his letter left-wing media monitor NewsGuard, which exists to "censor free speech and conservative news outlets."

Carr's letter reported on evidence from Elon Musk's release of "the Twitter Files" showing that NewsGuard worked "as part of the broader censorship cartel."

Elon Musk has argued that NewsGuard should be "disbanded immediately" following a 2023 report that it worked with the European Union on a code prompting governments to take action on alternative news sites. Musk has called NewsGuard "a propaganda shop that will produce any lies you want if you pay them enough money."

NewsGuard claims to rate media outlets for risk and accuracy.