Carr, only days before the decision announcement, had sent letters to Sundar Pichai of Google, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and Tim Cook of Apple, demanding information about how the firms have dealt with NewsGuard, a for-profit "fact-checking" scheme that routinely claims that conservative outlets are more "risky" than those outlets that promote a leftist agenda.
Social media companies have become a "cartel" for suppressing information with which they disagree, and that agenda now is going to be getting the attention of Brendan Carr, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
At least one member of NewsGuard's "advisory committee" was among those who signed the "infamous October 2020 letter" from former intelligence community officials that falsely claimed details in Hunter Biden's laptop were Russian disinformation.
"Americans must be able to reclaim their right to free speech." A report from Just the News noted that Carr also promised to work to end the agency's advocacy for the "diversity, equity, and inclusion" agenda.
Carr specifically points out that those protections apply only if companies are operating in "good faith." Further, he referenced an ongoing review of those tech site ideologies and agendas by the House Oversight Committee.
The New York Post reports that Carr has labeled Big Tech corporations a "censorship cartel" to eliminate speech of which they do not approve.
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