Brendan Carr, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for chair of the Federal Communications Commission, has called for the agency itself to clamp down on social media companies over accusations of censorship, a stance critics see as the kind of overreach that Republicans typically decry.
Carr is the senior Republican commissioner on the five-member FCC. Appointed to the body in 2017 by Trump, Carr contributed a chapter to the Heritage Foundation-led Project 2025, intended to be a blueprint for a second Trump administration but one that Trump disavowed during the campaign.
“Commissioner Carr is a warrior for Free Speech,” Trump said in a statement on Sunday. “He will end the regulatory onslaught that has been crippling America’s Job Creators and Innovators, and ensure that FCC delivers for rural America.”
