Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has accused Comcast of “news distortion” due to its subsidiary NBC’s coverage of the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Carr claims that Comcast’s reporting misled 50% of Americans by implying that Abrego Garcia was a law-abiding U.S. citizen. According to Carr, Abrego Garcia illegally entered the U.S. from El Salvador, was identified as a member of the MS-13 gang, and was denied bond by an immigration court. Carr’s accusations are based on the FCC’s news distortion policy, which has been enforced in only the most extreme cases, such as instances of bribery or direct orders to distort news. A 1985 ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit emphasized that the policy distinguishes between deliberate distortion and mere inaccuracy or differing opinions.
austerity is theft
@wideofthepost
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Apr 16 Trump’s FCC chair is threatening Comcast for broadcasting any news outlets that tell the truth about Garcia’s case instead of the blatant lies peddled by the admin, and there are somehow still centrists calling this a “trap” for Dems instead of recognizing how weak they are.
Rep. Ben Waxman
@RepBenWaxman
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Apr 17 The chair of the FCC is openly threatening to punish
@Comcast
—a major employer headquartered in my district—because MSNBC aired views he doesn’t like. That’s not regulation. That’s government retaliation against protected speech. It’s dangerous, authoritarian, and wrong.
Stop The Donald
@Stop_The_Donald
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Apr 17 FCC Chair Brendan Carr is targeting Comcast for ‘news distortion’ over immigration reporting, claiming it misled the public about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This follows the Trump administration’s attempts to silence independent media and weaponize misinformation.
Michael Harriot
@michaelharriot
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Feb 23 Weird how the Times didn’t feel the need to note that all this happened after Trump’s FCC chair notified Comcast that the company was under investigation for “promoting DEI” as they were trying to spin off MSNBCTo be fair, maybe the writer didn’t know all thisOh, wait…
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