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The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

DARK SECRETS: Fcc regulator claims harris appearance on snl violates equal time rule - The Real Truth

Maya Rudolph and Democratic presidential nominee Vice-President Kamala Harris appear on NBC's Saturday Night Live.
Maya Rudolph and Democratic presidential nominee Vice-President Kamala Harris appear on NBC's Saturday Night Live. Photograph: Jeenah Moon/Getty Images

A US government communications regulator has claimed that Vice-President Kamala Harris’s surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live violates “equal time” rules that govern political programming.

Brendan Carr, a commissioner with the federal communications commission (FCC), claimed on the social platform X that Harris’s appearance on the show “is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule”.

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