FCC’s Sole Democrat Calls On Broadcast Lobby To Push Back On Trump-Backed Chairman’s Regulatory Threats Over Election Coverage

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Anna Gomez, the sole Democrat on the FCC, is calling on the broadcast lobby to push back on chairman Brendan Carr‘s warning that stations could be subject to regulatory review for airing who he deemed as “fake polls.”

In Gomez’s letter to the National Association of Broadcasters’ president and CEO Curtis LeGeyt, she wrote that “every station covering the upcoming midterm elections needs to understand what the law actually requires before that threat has its intended chilling effect.”

In his social media post earlier this week, Carr cited the FCC’s news distortion and broadcast hoax policies. “Many journalists and

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