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Brendan Carr Says He Wants Public Input On His Censorship Campaign Against ABC
Karl Bode, Techdirt
As we’ve previously noted, Brendan Carr recently launched a series of phony inquiries into ABC because Jimmy Kimmel made fun of the president’s wife. Carr can’t just come out and say that, so he’s launched a series of fake (and legally laughable) “investigati…
May 27, 2026, 12:31 PM
Trump administration defends right to ban content moderation experts from US
Lauren Feiner, The Verge
The Trump administration is fighting for the right to keep some social media moderation advocates out of the US. On Wednesday, US District Court Judge James Boasberg heard arguments in a lawsuit between the nonprofit Coalition for Independent Technology Resea…
May 13, 2026, 9:58 PM
ABC Shows A Backbone In FCC Fight, Shows FCC Manufactured A Controversy Surrounding James Talarico
Karl Bode, Techdirt
ABC/Disney, like most major media companies, has spent much of its time during America’s bout with authoritarianism being a feckless wimp. The company was quick to ditch its already fleeting embrace of civil rights to please our dim, racist president, and wer…
May 12, 2026, 12:27 PM
A Dangerous New Attack on Press Freedom
David A. Graham, The Atlantic
According to MS NOW, the FBI has launched an investigation into an Atlantic reporter.
May 6, 2026, 3:01 PM
Trump angers right-wing fans with censorship campaign
Sophia Tesfaye, Salon
As some members of MAGA media begin pushing back against Trump, there may be a limit to his campaign of retribution
May 5, 2026, 3:20 PM
The Broken U.S. Press Sits Down For Cocktails And Giggles With Fascists
Karl Bode, Techdirt
This Saturday is the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner (WHCA). And there’s been ample criticism of journalists that plan to have giggles and cocktails with overt fascists, given this helps normalize of one of the most racist, censorial, and corru…
Apr 22, 2026, 12:29 PM
Court To Bondi: Demanding Platforms Censor Speech And Bragging About It On Fox News Is, In Fact, A First Amendment Violation
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
For the better part of five years, we’ve been treated to an elaborate performance about the unprecedented constitutional horror of “jawboning.” Jim Jordan held hearings. Missouri’s AG sued. The Supreme Court heard Murthy v. Missouri and concluded there wasn’t…
Apr 20, 2026, 4:31 PM
A First Amendment Legend Eviscerates Brendan Carr With Substance And Style
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
We’ve been covering Brendan Carr’s censorial ambitions for a long time now. When Trump first picked him to chair the FCC, we warned people that the “free speech warrior” branding was a total sham. We later dug into the letter from a massive coalition of 80+ l…
Apr 17, 2026, 6:03 PM
Oh Look, The MAGA FTC Built The Censorship Industrial Complex It Was Screaming About
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
We’ve been covering the Trump administration’s escalating campaign against NewsGuard for a while now. It started with the House Oversight Committee’s absurd investigation of the company for the crime of expressing opinions about news reliability. But then the…
Apr 16, 2026, 4:29 PM
Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa”
Sam Biddle, The Intercept
Meta’s new rules let it ban users or suppress comments that include the word “antifa” alongside “content-level threat signals.” The post Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa” appeared first on The Intercept.
Apr 14, 2026, 2:17 PM
Remember The “Ministry Of Truth” Freakout? Rubio Is Now Doing Something Far Worse Through Elon Musk’s X
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Remember when the Biden administration set up something called the “Disinformation Governance Board” and the entire MAGA universe lost its collective mind? It was the “Ministry of Truth.” It was “government speech police.” It was the single most Orwellian thi…
Apr 8, 2026, 5:55 PM
Weeks After Denouncing Government Censorship On Rogan, Zuckerberg Texted Elon Musk Offering To Take Down Content For DOGE
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
On January 10th, 2025, Mark Zuckerberg sat down with Joe Rogan and put on quite a performance. He talked about how the Biden administration had pressured Meta to take down content. He detailed how the Biden administration had apparently pressured Meta to take…
Mar 31, 2026, 6:09 PM
Karoline Leavitt Got Press Wires to Vanish an Unflattering Photo of Her
Danielle Han, Jezebel
Photogenic paranoia is very much top of mind with this administration.
Mar 31, 2026, 11:40 AM
America’s Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warrior, Brendan Carr, Gets A Letter Documenting His First Amendment Violations
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
For years, certain folks on the left kept insisting they wanted to bring back the Fairness Doctrine — the old FCC policy that required broadcasters to present “both sides” of controversial issues. Many of us in the tech policy world kept explaining why that w…
Mar 26, 2026, 7:25 PM
Pentagon Wants It to Be Illegal for Reporters to Ask “Unauthorized” Questions
Seth Stern, The Intercept
The Trump admin wants to criminalize a key part of journalists doing their jobs — a broadside attack on a free press. The post Pentagon Wants It to Be Illegal for Reporters to Ask “Unauthorized” Questions appeared first on The Intercept.
Mar 26, 2026, 9:00 AM
Brendan Carr Pretends To Be Tough, Demands Broadcasters Support Disastrous War
Karl Bode, Techdirt
Brendan Carr is once again doing Brendan Carr stuff. Carr has threatened to revoke the broadcast licenses of broadcasters that tell the truth about Trump’s disastrous war in Iran. In a post over at Elon Musk’s right wing propaganda website, Carr insists that …
Mar 17, 2026, 12:20 PM
FCC Chairman Threatens to Revoke TV Licenses Over Iran Coverage
Ece Yildirim, Gizmodo.com
Here's the latest in the FCC's quest to keep American media on a tight leash.
Mar 16, 2026, 6:46 PM
Trump & Newsom Spar Over Censorship & POTUS’ Despotic Claim To Be “Reshaping The Media”
Dominic Patten, Deadline
Another weekend and it’s another dust-up between Donald Trump and Gavin Newsom — this time about media censorship or control, depending on who you ask. As the former Apprentice host’s sycophantic FCC chair threatens outlets over their Iran War coverage, a gol…
Mar 14, 2026, 7:47 PM
Newsmax Didn’t Like Its NewsGuard Rating, So The FTC Attacked NewsGuard, And Now NewsGuard Is Suing
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
We’ve written a few times now about how the GOP’s “free speech warriors” have been waging an absolutely absurd campaign against NewsGuard, a company whose entire business model is… expressing opinions about the reliability of news sources. You know, speech. T…
Feb 20, 2026, 5:25 PM
FCC reject claims of censorship, announces probe into US show The View
Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English
Federal Communications Commission faces backlash after comedian Stephen Colbert blamed its rules for scuttled interview.
Feb 18, 2026, 10:27 PM
The ‘Most Massive Attack On Free Speech’ Is Happening Right Now, And The Twitter Files Crew Is Mighty Quiet
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
For the last five years, we had to endure an endless, breathless parade of hyperbole regarding the so-called “censorship industrial complex.” We were told, repeatedly and at high volume, that the Biden administration flagging content for review by social medi…
Feb 18, 2026, 5:28 PM
The FCC (probably) didn’t censor Stephen Colbert
Christian Paz, Vox
For the 12 of us who woke up Tuesday morning wondering what we had missed on Monday’s late-night shows, CBS greeted us with a concerning development. Overnight, Stephen Colbert had laid into his network, dedicating time at the top of The Late Show to claim th…
Feb 18, 2026, 5:08 PM
Stephen Colbert Says CBS Bowed to FTC Pressure, Dropped Interview With Democrat
Ece Yildirim, Gizmodo.com
Here's the interview that CBS and the FTC don't want you to see.
Feb 17, 2026, 5:35 PM
Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us
Jeremy Busby, The Intercept
The government wants to make it illegal to possess literature it deems dangerous — a familiar tactic to this incarcerated writer. The post Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us appeared first on The Intercept.
Feb 16, 2026, 11:00 AM