Brendan Carr threatens Comcast over coverage of Abrego Garcia

Federal Communications Commission seat Brendan Carr has accused Comcast of “news distortion” implicit its networks’ sum of Kilmar Armando Abrego, a Maryland antheral who was deported to El Salvador owed to what the government said was an “administrative error.”

“Comcast outlets spent days misleading the American public,” Carr wrote successful a reply to a post connected X, which criticized the Comcast-owned MSNBC and Warner Bros. Discovery’s CNN for not covering a White House property briefing astir the deportation of immigrants. “Comcast knows that national instrumentality requires its licensed operations to service the nationalist interest.”

During the briefing connected Wednesday, the Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the administration’s determination to deport Abrego Garcia and accused him of being a pack member. Earlier this month, a Supreme Court justice ordered the government to bring Abrego Garcia backmost to the US, arsenic the authorities violated a erstwhile tribunal order preventing his deportation to El Salvador.

Trump officials person since lambasted Comcast and different media companies for not airing the briefing, with White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung calling the deficiency of sum “shameful.” In February, Carr opened an probe into Comcast implicit its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, and aboriginal suggested that the FCC won’t o.k. mergers and acquisitions if companies enactment DEI.

As pointed retired by Deadline, the FCC’s ain website states that the agency’s authorization implicit quality distortion is “narrow” and it volition lone analyse if there’s “evidence showing that the broadcast quality study was deliberately intended to mislead viewers oregon listeners.”

The Verge reached retired to Comcast with a petition for remark but didn’t instantly perceive back.