FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr is taking on four major Big Tech companies for their involvement in an alleged “censorship cartel” that he says targeted Americans for promoting narratives that the companies did not agree with.
Carr sent letters to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Apple CEO Tim Cook requesting that they provide the FCC with information pertaining to NewsGuard — a left-wing organization that has played a role in targeting conservatives online.
“Over the past few years, Americans have lived through an unprecedented surge in censorship,” Carr said in his letter. “Your companies played significant roles in this improper conduct. Big Tech companies silenced Americans for doing nothing more than exercising their First Amendment rights.”
Carr said that the companies worked with so-called “media monitors” to…
