The role requires Senate approval. If Carr does become the chairman of the FCC, the appointment stands to have serious impacts on Big Tech. Carr's stance on Big Tech In his Project 2025 chapter, Carr writes that one of his four main goals for the FCC is ...

US President-elect Donald Trump has named "big tech" critic Brendan Carr to lead the US communications regulator, after he takes office in January 2025. Carr has attacked what he sees as the censorship of conservative viewpoints by top social media firms other than X,

Brendan Carr, a critic of the Biden administration's telecom policies and Big Tech, is currently the top Republican on the FCC.

Carr has vowed to take on “censorship” by Big Tech companies in Project 2025, which laid out a conservative agenda for Donald Trump’s second term.

President-elect Donald Trump said he has selected Brendan Carr as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, the current top Republican commissioner at the agency, and oil and gas industry executive Chris Wright as the next energy secretary.

Carr last week accused big tech firms including Meta, Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft of taking steps to censor Americans

"Commissioner Carr is a warrior for free speech and has fought against the regulatory lawfare that has stifled Americans' freedoms and held back our economy," Trump said. "He will

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, as the new chairman of the agency tasked with regulating broadcasting, telecommunications and broadband.