Former FCC officials want to force a vote on the ‘weapon’ Brendan Carr has invoked against broadcasters

Several erstwhile Federal Communications Commissioners and staffers crossed parties are urging a national appeals tribunal to unit a ballot connected the FCC's quality distortion policy, which they reason should beryllium repealed aft being abused by Republican Chair Brendan Carr.

On Tuesday, a radical of petitioners asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to necessitate the FCC to ballot connected a petition to repeal the News Distortion Policy. The petition was filed by the bipartisan radical of erstwhile officials in November of 2025, aft Carr invoked the regularisation to unit ABC into temporarily suspending comedian Jimmy Kimmel. But lone the bureau seat tin bring …

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.